Word Style Book

ABOUT THIS MANUAL

The Word Style Book has been prepared in the Office to function in conjunction with the 10th edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary as the dictionary for that office, to be consulted in the preparation of the parliamentary debates for publication. It is a guide to how to treat words in the text of Hansard, and not a guide to precedents or setting up members’ names.

The use of hyphens is being kept to a minimum, in line with COD practice as stated in the preface to the 10th edition.

For guidance on how a word or expression is treated in Hansard, consult the Word Style Book before the COD. The treatment of words not covered in either reference text will need to be confirmed for inclusion in the Word Style Book updates, which are published regularly.

USER GUIDE to the HANSARD WORD STYLE BOOK I ENTRIES IN WORD STYLE BOOK (WSB) accounts alphanumeric classifications animals chemicals and organic compounds cities, countries, geographical features, etc., if not in atlas or Wises compound words diseases drugs (generic) foreign words and phrases games indices Māori words (listed separately) measurements misused or misspelt words mottos and proverbs new words “non-words” that may be used (eg., bikkie) parliamentary terms and organisations, positions, etc. associated with plants qualifications religions statutory holidays taxes technical terms words that reflect a specifically NZ usage or spelling that differs from that in the COD II ENTRIES IN REFERENCE LIST airports, ports computer programs conventions, conferences court cases days, weeks, years with special names [NOT statutory holidays] events with titles (historical, political, or sporting) examinations forests, parks, reserves funds grants, benefits man-made structures, including buildings, roads, bridges organisations people plays, operas, films, videos, works of art poetry and songs publications schemes, programmes, projects, task forces, campaigns ships and aircraft slogans speeches television and radio programmes and stations/channels trademarks treaties website addresses

February 2004

USING THE WSB

♦ ROUND BRACKETS denote explanation and/or rule: each (sing., takes a singular verb)

♦ SQUARE BRACKETS denote an instruction about what not to do: essential [NOT important essential]

♦ SEMICOLONS separate acceptable words and constructions: Imprest Supply ; imprest supply debate

♦ ABBREVIATIONS: (adj.) adjective (adv.) adverb (attrib.) when precedes the noun being described (n.) noun (pl.) plural (predic.) when follows the noun being described (sing.) singular (v.) verb

♦ SYMBOLS: # = Use the full version followed by the abbreviation in brackets the first time that the reference is mentioned in a speech, and use the abbreviation alone thereafter IVF = unacceptable abbreviation or word; use full name or replacement word(s) (1), (2), (3) = hyphen type (see next page)

♦ Entries without an explanation have the same form for all parts of speech: ill-thought-out

February 2004

HYPHENS in the WSB

Three categories of hyphen use have been flagged in the Word Style Book. These categories are:

TYPE 1 for example: data matching (1) a) No hyphen for noun (unqualified) - data matching is necessary b) Hyphen for qualified noun - accurate data-matching c) Hyphen for adjective - data-matching process

TYPE 2 for example: much needed (2); under the table (2); well founded (2) a) Hyphen if used immediately in front of the noun (that is, attributively) - a well-founded argument (BUT How well founded was his argument?) - under-the-table payment b) No hyphen if used after the noun that the phrase qualifies (that is, predicatively) - the argument is well founded - my pay rise was much needed

TYPE 3 for example: back up (3) a) No hyphen for verb - we back up the data b) Hyphen for noun - a back-up was needed c) Hyphen for adjective - a back-up operation

February 2004

Numbers

The of the entries follows that used in the Reference List. The placing of an entry beginning with a punctuation mark or symbol – for example, “ or $ – is determined by the following number.

1,4 butanediol (One4b) “$10 dad(s)” (re payment of child support) 18-plus card (ID for drinkers) 101 (re ways etc.) 1080 poison (re possums) 2,4-D 2,4,5-T 20/20 24/7 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) 2G = second-generation (adj., 1. a more advanced stage of technology; 2. re radio spectrum) 2IC (second-in-command) 3-D 3G = third-generation (adj., re radio spectrum) 3,4 methylene dioxy-methyl amphetamine (Ecstasy) 35s promoter (derived from cauliflower mosaic virus; present in many genetically modified plants) 4-MTA (4-methylthioamphetamine) $64,000 question “65 at 65” (reference to proposal for superannuation to be available to all at age 65, at 65 percent of the average wage) 9/11 (date of World Trade Center attack) 90-day bill rate

February 2004

actually (avoid repetitive usage) A actus reus (legal term) a (all words beginning with “h” apart from “heir”, acyclovir (herpes drug) “honour”, “hour”, and their derivatives require the article “a”) ad = advertisement A+; A-; AA+ rating AD 1066; 10th century AD AA2, AA3 (credit rating); Aa1, Aa3 (Moody’s credit ADD = attention deficit disorder rating) address AA negative watch Address (special address to Queen or Governor- General) AA-stable address the issue Aa standard (Ministry of Health water supply the bill addresses classification) Address in Reply (see Precedent Manual) AAZ rating Address in Reply debate abateable the motion for the Address in Reply abhorrence of an action; abhorrent to us the mover and the seconder of the Address in Reply Aboriginal(s)/Aborigine(s) (re ); ad hoc; ad hockery aboriginal(s)/aborigine(s) (other) adjournment (1. end of sitting day; 2. within a about Parliament, a period of one or more weeks in about [NOT around about, in/of the order of about] which the House does not sit) about 25 to 30 percent [NOT about 25 or 30 ad lib; ad libitum percent] ad libbed above ad libber above-mentioned ad libbing above-named ad medium filum aquae (common law principle) abridgment administration (Government, ruling body, process, absolve from system) A Bursary Administrator of the Government; Administrator accede to (Chief Justice) access ADSL = asymmetrical digital subscriber line access way “Adventures of Rodney” (re Rodney District accompanied by a dog; accompanied with a smile Council) accord, accordance advert = advertisement - I am in accord with him. adviser; advisory - In accordance with his wishes ... Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito) accountable for a trust or money; accountable to a aero (prefix; no hyphen unless precedes a vowel) person aeroclub accruals basis adjustment aerodyne ACE = annual catch entitlement aero-engine Aceh (province in Indonesia) aerogram ACE inhibitor aeroplane; airplane acknowledgment “Af-gaffe” (re and SAS deployment to A classification (Historic Places Trust) Afghanistan) Acmena smithii (white monkey apple) afioga (Samoan title) acquiesce in aforenamed acquit of a crime; acquit with distinction after (prefix) across the board (2) after-deck (n.) Act after dinner (2) 1982 amendment Act after-event Act of 1940 aftergrowth Acts of attainder after hours (2) amending Act aftermatch (adj.) Education Amendment Act (No 5) 2001 afternoon tea; afternoon-tea time after tax (2) acting, Acting afternoon/p.m. acting chair/chairman/chairwoman/chairperson, the (presiding officer outside the House) - at 2 o’clock in the afternoon acting Chair/Chairman/Chairwoman/Chairperson, - at 2 p.m. [NOT at 2 p.m. in the afternoon] the (presiding officer in the House) age Acting Leader of the House aged care (1) acting Leader of the ageing Acting (if officially acting); acting Minister “ageing in place” policy (re home help for elderly) (unofficial) age-limit acting , the; Mr/Madam Acting Speaker agelong Mr/Madam Acting Chair/Chairman/Chairwoman/ Ageratina riparia (mistflower) Chairperson (presiding officer outside or in the agreed value regime (re accident compensation) House) agree with a person, a statement, or an action; agree action woman (n., adj.) agree to a proposition February 2004

agri (prefix) Alliance members opposite agrichemical Alliance Opposition agricultural emissions research levy (proposed) Alliance Opposition spokesperson agriculturalist; agriculturist Alliance research unit agrifuel Alliance shadow Cabinet AI 585 (accident compensation submission number) Alliance shadow Minister of Finance AID = artificial insemination by donor Alliance, the [NOT the Alliance party] AIDS Allies, the (Britain and her allies, World War I and Aileu (in East Timor) World War II); allies Ainaro (in East Timor) alongside [NOT alongside of] air alpha anti-trypsin (enzyme) air-blast alpha triploid (re hops) airbus; Airbus (trade name) alternate (first one, then the other, in turn); air combat (n., adj.) alternative (in place of) air commodore - There were alternate hot and cold spells. air compressor - The road is closed, but alternative routes are air fare open. air ferry alternative budget air force (n., adj.); Air Force () although, even though (“despite the fact that”; use air link what member says) air marshal; Air Marshal Jones altriptaphan (amino acid) air people AM (re radio broadcasting) airplane; aeroplane a.m./morning air strike (n., adj.) - at 2 a.m. [NOT 2 a.m. in the morning] air training corps, an; Air Training Corps - at 2 o’clock in the morning Akita (breed of dog) amazement at some unexpected happening Alcatraz ambassador alcohol ambassador-designate alcoholic-drinks licence Ambassador Wood alcoholic liquor account (repealed July 2000) French Ambassador (France’s representative in alcohol-impaired New Zealand); ambassador alcopop New Zealand Ambassador to France; Ambassador alco-sensor device to France; ambassador alec ambulance clever alec ambulance driver smart alec ambulance man; ambulance woman Alice in Wonderland (adj.) “amen” to that all amendment, amending all-comers’ record amendment bill; amending bill; amendment Act all day (2) amendment No. 9 of the Kiwifruit Marketing all-encompassing Regulations 1977 all-important (adj., adv.) amendment slip all-knowledgable American grey squirrel all night (2) aminorex (a central nervous system stimulant) all-of-Government (attrib.) amitrole (fungicide) all or nothing (2) all out (2) ammonia-urea all right (2) [NOT alright] among, amongst all-stops-out (adj.) AMS = aggregate measure of support all together (all at once); altogether (totally) an (all words beginning with “h” apart from “heir”, all up “honour”, “hour”, and their derivatives require the all, all of (use “all of” if followed by pronoun; use “all” article “a”; other words beginning with a vowel if followed by noun) require the article “an”) - all of those who read this anarcho-capitalist (adj.) - all those people anathema [NOT an anathema] all, any (use “all” not “any” with the superlative Anau Ako Pasifika (Pacific Islands pre-school degree) programme); anau ako Pasifika (general term) - Biology is the most enjoyable of all [NOT any of] ancestor, eponymous (person from whom an is my courses. descended) allegiance ancestral connection order (re foreshore and Declaration of Allegiance seabed) Oath of Allegiance anchor-stone Allemansratt (Swedish code of common law) and Alliance And (may be used at the beginning of a sentence Alliance budget only if it adds something) Alliance caucus and/or Alliance, leader of the and nor = nor February 2004

and so = so another’s safety and the like apprise of (to inform); appraise (to value or to and yet = yet estimate) Andalusian fowl appropriation anegre (African timber; re refurbishment) Appropriation (1999/2000 Estimates) Bill angry at/about an insult; angry with a person Appropriation (1996/97 Financial Review) Bill/bills animal product standard(s) Appropriation (1998/99 Supplementary Estimates) annex, annexe Bill/bills annex (v.) appropriation bill(s) (descriptive); Appropriation Bill/ annex (of a protocol; check numbering style) bills annexe (of a building) Appropriation Bill (No 4) annoyed by an act or thing; annoyed with a person approved issuer levy annualise (v.); annualised (adj.) aquarium(s) Antarctic, in the; Antarctica, in Arab States; Arab world; Arabian Basin Antarctic exploration Arawa (town on Bougainville) subantarctic Archey’s frog ante Arctic ante diem Arctic Circle ante meridiem Arctic fox ante-mortem (adj.) Arctic, in the ante, up the Arctic region anti (words formed with “anti” that are not in the COD arctic weather should have a hyphen) subarctic anti - drinking-driving (adj., thin spaces) arecoline hydrobromide (re hydatids) antinuclear Argentine ant anti-selfdetermination argumentum ad hominem anti-war armed forces; armed services anticipate, expect (to anticipate something is to look arm’s length (2); non-arm’s length (2) ahead to it and prepare for it, not to make a army, Army reasonable estimate; its strict meaning is to forestall Army (New Zealand); army (n., adj.) or to foresee and take action) Army cadet unit - He expected a wage increase, but he did not Indonesian army receive it. However, in anticipation of a wage Aromatic(s) (n.); aromatic (adj.) increase he bought a washing-machine. around (throughout, here and there, about); round Antipodes (Australasia); antipodean (circular motion) Anton Piller order (legal term) around [NOT round] 40 bills anxious about something; anxious for a person around his electorate any around the world a trend is starting any, all (use “all” not “any” with the superlative round the world in 80 days degree) sitting around doing nothing - Biology is the most enjoyable of all [NOT any of] what goes around comes around my courses. article any one of; anyone else article XI of the GATT prohibitions any other (when drawing comparisons) article 3 of the ; Article the Third - Fudge is better than any other sweet. article 14(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human any time Rights Anzac; Anzac Day A’s, B’s, and C’s New Zealand ASC = available subscribed capital Aotearoa New Zealand Day (proposed by Dunne, to ASDO = approved service delivery organisation replace Waitangi Day) A share (dairying; return on investments and apathy to/towards; be apathetic about marketing) APC = armoured personnel carrier Ashmore Islands (island group off the north-west aping coast of Australia) “a” plus “b” theory ash whitefly (pest) apostle (follower); Apostle (one of the twelve Asian gypsy moth Apostles) Asian pear (Nashi) appendix Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus; carries appendixes (pl. organs); appendices (pl. literary) dengue fever) Appendix to the Journals of the House of Asia-Pacific (n., adj.) Representatives; Appendix to the Journals of the as much as (when comparing things); much as House; Appendix to the Journals (when the sense is that of “although”) [Applause] - Your car did not cost as much as mine did. appraise (to value or to estimate); apprise of (to - Much [NOT as much] as I would like to do that, I inform) cannot at the moment. appreciation of Asperger’s syndrome (form of autism) apprehensive of danger; apprehensive for ASROC = antisubmarine rocket February 2004

assalam o alaikum (an Arabic greeting) awa “assess and assist” (re Education Review Office) AWASP = adjusted weighted average sale price asset (re wool) asset backing (1) away/way asset-rich - Harry is away/way off beam. asset-strip (v.); asset stripping (1) - The submarine was away/way below. asset test (n., v.); asset-test (adj.) axe-murder asset testing (1) “axis of evil” Associate Ayatollah (if named); ayatollah Associate Judge of the High Court; associate judge Aye Associate Minister Ayes and Noes as to (use sparingly) Ayes lobby asylum seeker (n.); refugee asylum-seeker of that opinion will say “Aye”, of the contrary opinion Atambua (East Timor) will say “No” at-call (adj.) The Ayes will go to the right and the Noes will go to “at large” voting system the left. atorvastatin (drug) The Ayes have it. atrazine (organochloride) Azerbaijan at risk (2) azithromycin (drug used to prevent ectopic attention-grabbler pregnancy) at that stage of the debate = in that stage of the debate Attorney-General; Attorneys-General attribute to (v.); attribute of (n.) “at use of” arrangement (re tax) Auckland Central (electorate); central Auckland (district) Auckland harbour Greater Auckland south Auckland auction mart Auditor-General; Controller and Auditor-General Deputy Auditor-General; Deputy Controller and Auditor General auf Wiedersehen August (cattle breed) Auld Reekie (Edinburgh) Aunt Sally; Aunt Sallies aurora; auroras aurora australis; aurorae australes aurora borealis; aurorae boreales Aussie Australia Australian bushtail possum Australia - New Zealand (adj., thin spaces) Australian Labor Party/Government Austria-Hungary (broken up after First World War) Authorised Version of the Bible auto (prefix) autocycle auto electrician autonomous Crown entity (proposed; entity that is not a company, and does not obviously fall into categories of Crown agent or independent Crown entity) autrefois acquit average-priced avgard, avgas (aviation turbine fuels) avian poxvirus (disease of birds) aviarist (keeps birds) “avoision” (evading/avoiding tax) avtur (aviation turbine fuel) February 2004

batons-up (gambling game) B batt (insulating material) B.2, B.3 etc. (expand to correct title when referring to battered woman’s syndrome Budget documents in debate) battery operated (2) (B.2), (B.3) etc. (when referring to Budget documents by name in formal House procedures; see Financial battle Procedures section of Precedent Manual) battleground battle-lines BAAZ rating Baucau (East Timor) baby baby boom; baby-boom (adj.) Baumol-Willig principle (re pricing and monopoly baby ECNZ(s) (companies to be split off from profits) ECNZ) BBLR = broad base - low rate (BBLR)# (taxation “baby of all Budgets” (re the 2002 Budget) rate) BAC 1-11 Bb standard (Ministry of Health water supply Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Science classification) Bacillus larvae (foul brood disease of bees) B Bursary Bacillus thuringiensis (insecticide produced by BC genetically modified plants) 55 BC; 5th century BC Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki (naturally occurring B classification (Historic Places Trust) bacterium, commercially available as a biological beach cast seaweed insecticide in Foray 48B) bean-meal back Beaubignies (French village) back bench(es) (n., physical seat; personification); because / reason is [NOT reason is because] back-bench (adj.); back-bencher bed back bench(es), on the bedmate back-door (adj.) bed night back down (3) two-bedroom house back line (rugby) beef up (3); beefing-up (n., adj.) back off (3) Beehive back-pay Beehive-on-wheels project back payment Beehive, the (part of parliamentary complex) backpedal Beehive theatrette back room (n.); backroom (adj.) before (for the attention of); in front of (physical backscratcher (n.); back scratching (1) location) back stab (3) beginning-school (adj.) backtrack (n., v.) behind the scenes (2) back up (3) mid-backbench Belarus BAD tax = bank account debit tax; “BAD” tax (if Belgian Blue (cattle) making a pun) bell (House) Bahrain dinar 1-minute bell division bell bail out (3) the bell was not ringing on the ninth floor bait trap the ringing of the bell ball gown Bellamy’s ballot below-market ballot box belt ballotee belt and braces band-aid belt tightening (1) bank bench bank account debit tax appointed to the bench (judicial) Banquet Hall (Beehive) back bench(es) (n., physical seat, personification); Bar (legal) back-bench (adj.); back-bencher Bar of the House back bench(es), on the bar 1; bar 2 (bill) bench mate barbed wire (n., adj.) cross bench; cross-bencher bareme (schedule of wool prices) front bench (n., physical seat, personification); bargain-basement (n., adj.) front-bench (adj.); front-bencher barley meal head of bench barmy army mid-backbench National benches Bartlett pear Opposition front bench; Labour Opposition front baseload (adj.) bench base myelin protein the bench ruled that (judicial) basic-scale position Treasury benches (benches occupied by Batam (Indonesia; re sweatshops) Ministers) “Bathgate-gate” beneficiary bashing (1) batmobile (Peters’ election bus) benefit-cost ratio; cost-benefit ratio February 2004

benefit-from-supply rights (re dairy cooperatives) Bill of Rights 1688; New Zealand Bill of Rights Act benlate (fungicide) bills [NOT Bills] benthic (adj., of the bottom of the sea) Bills Digest; Bills Digest No. 90 benzene (re vehicle emissions) Bills Office commentary (on a/the bill; separate from actual bill) benzol (impure benzene) Government bill; local bill; member’s bill; members’ Berlin Wall bills; private bill Berocca No. 83/2 (copy of bill) berryfruit preamble (to a/the bill) best “Unfavourable Weather Remedial Bill” (fictional) best-guess (adj.) billiard-room best known (2) billingsgate (abuse); Billingsgate Fish Market best-practice (adj.) billion best world practice billion-dollar deficit better off (2); better-off (n.) half a billion; half-billion; 1.5 billion [NOT 1½ billion] betting-house “ten billion dollar man” BUT “Six Billion Dollar Man” bettor (style mirrors that of the television programme) between John and Mary [NOT “or” Mary] binge-drinker; binge drinking beyond-right bio (prefix; usually one word) BFOQ = bona fide occupational qualification biocontrol (n., adj.) biannual (half-yearly); biennial (two-yearly) bioequivalent Bible bio-incursion Bible class / lesson / bio-organic bibles “biopharming” bidibidi (piripiri) biosecure (v., adj.) biennial (two-yearly); biannual (half-yearly) biosocial biotech “biff” biotoxin big birdlife big ask big bikkies bit Big Brother (n., adj.) 10 and a bit years big-business (attrib.) bitser big-city (adj.) bitsy big daddy (biggest; most powerful) black big-events (adj., re Saatchi and Saatchi tourism black book proposal) “black” Budget big-game (adj.) black-letter law big-noting blacklist; “black list” (of countries that are tax big powers havens) big rig black market; black-marketing big-ticket “black skirt” disease (of scallops in Coromandel) the big one (earthquake) “black” Wednesday “bikie” Blairite bikkie; big bikkies blank cheque (n., adj.) bill blanket-spray (v.) - Animal Products Bill (full name); animal products bleed out (n., adj.) bills blimin - Animal Products Amendment Bill (full name); blister pack Animal Products Amendment bills bloc (parties, Governments, etc. that share a - Bail Bill (No 2) common purpose) BUT note the following, which are incomplete BLOC = basic level of capability (Air Force term) references to a special category of bill: block - Appropriation Bill; Appropriation bills blockfaulting (appropriation bills if descriptive reference) blockmaking - Business Law Reform Bill; Business Law block vote (vote that has a value in proportion to the Reform bills number of people the voter represents) - Finance Bill; Finance bills (finance bills if Poronui block descriptive reference) - Imprest Supply Bill; Imprest Supply bills blokesses - Local Legislation Bill; Local Legislation bills Blond d’Aquitaine (cattle breed) (local legislation bills if descriptive reference) blood - Maori Purposes Bill; Maori Purposes bills 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood - Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill; blood/alcohol level Reserves and Other Lands Disposal bills blood-and-bone an amending bill blood/lead level appendix I to the bill blood line bill book blood pressure; her blood pressure rate was bill box recorded as 120/80 February 2004

blood type boom box blowout (n.); blow out (v.); blow-out (adj.) boot blue “bootlickers” club “blue ear” disease (porcine reproductive and bootmaker; bootmaking respiratory syndrome) “bootstrap” scheme blueing booze-up “blue light” disco borax, to poke the blue, make a Borna disease blue penguin (also little penguin, little blue penquin, borough kororā) Tawa Borough; borough of Tawa blue-sky (adj.) borrow and hope (2) blue water (n.); blue-water (adj.) Bosnia; Bosnia-Herzegovina bluenose (fish); bluenose 3 (type of fishing quota) botch up (3) Bluff (town in Southland); the Bluff (headland in Southland) both (followed by “and”, NOT “as well as”; NOT both BMSYI = level of biomass that will support the alike) maximum sustainable yield boundary line “Boag-an”; “Boag-anisation”; “Boag-ed”; bovine “Boagy” bovine somatotropin bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow board disease) on board (2) bovine viral diarrhoea virus boarding box boarding house (n.); boarding-house (adj.) boxholder boardinghouse-keeper box-seat boat boy boatbuilder boy scout; a Scout boatbuilding “boys’ own” (adj.) boatie old boy network boatload old boys’ club boat owner boatshed BPD = barrels per day bob Brahman (cattle breed) 10 bob each way brand-spanking-new (adj.) Bobonara (East Timor) Branford Park (Nelson) bodgie brass bodgie (n., adj., v.); bodgying; bodgie-boy brass plate bodies corporate brass razoo boffinate (v.) brassed off (2) bog iron (n.); bog-iron (adj.) brat pack (n.); brat-pack (adj.) boiler bravery awards (from 20 September 1999; see also boil down (v.) gallantry awards) boilerhouse New Zealand Bravery Decoration; NZBD boilermaker/making New Zealand Bravery Medal; NZBM boiling-down (n., adj.) New Zealand Bravery Star; NZBS boil-up (n.) ; NZC Brazilian fila (dog breed) “Bolly” (Bollinger champagne) break bolter’s show breakaway (n., adj.); break away (v.) bonamia (oyster parasite) breakdown (n., adj.); break down (v.) bond-wash break out (3) bondy (rust, fibreglass) breakthrough (n., adj.); break through (v.) bone break-up (n.); break up (v.); breaking-up (n., adj.) bone manure breast screening (1) bone marrow transplant breath bon(s)-chretien(s) (pear) breath screening (1) bonjour (a French greeting) breath test (attrib., qualified n.) bonus-bond holder; bondholder breath testing (1) “Boo-Boo” (Marian Hobbs) Brent crude oil boohai, up the Brethren fellowship book brevetoxin bill book brew-on premises book burner BRGs = breeding, rearing, and growing (costs) book debt bridge building (1) Book of books brightline (accounting term) bookstore British Indian Ocean Territory statute book [NOT books] broad boom and bust (2) broadbanding February 2004

broad-based bumiputra (Malaysia; “people of the land”) broad based - low rate (taxation rate) bumper sticker broad left Bundesrat (Upper House of Parliament in Germany) broadcasting box (Lower House of Parliament in Germany) Brobdingnag (land of giants); Brobdingnagian bungy-jumping brodifacoum (anticoagulant; re rat control) bur clover bromofluorocarbon bureau brood mare bureaucratese brothel-keeper bureaus brown “bureau-speak” brown lace lerp (beetle) Burkean (adj.) “Browntable” Burkina Faso (African country) browntop (grass) bus “brown wash” (as in whitewash) busing Brownie (box camera) busload brush off (3) busway brushware bush BSE = bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)# bush carpenter (mad cow disease) bush-clad BT = Bacillus thuringiensis bush country Bt11 (variety of GM sweetcorn) bushcraft BTK = Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki bushfelling B (type of large truck) bushland bushline BTU = British thermal unit bush track bucephalus (oyster parasite) business bucket load “business angel” bucks Business Committee six bucks; 420 bucks business-friendly (2) member business hours Budget (upper case when referring to the Financial business house Statement of New Zealand or of other countries) Business Law Reform Bill; Business Law Reform alternative budget bills “black” Budget businessman; small-business man Budget ‘85 task force business people; business person Budget Economic and Fiscal Update businesswoman; small-business woman budget holding (1) “Bust bus” (mobile mammogram bus) Budget Policy Statement but (may be used at the beginning of a sentence) Budget 2002 Speech; Fiscal Strategy Report; and - But I shall never forget her. Economic and Fiscal Update (book, 2002) (Use EITHER “but” OR “however”, nevertheless”, Budget Speech and Fiscal Strategy Report (book, “notwithstanding”, “none the less”, “in spite of”, “all pre-2002) the same”) Budget statement (the Budget speech) butter “gimme” Budget butter box mini-Budget butter factory NewLabour Party budget butter market Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update butterhead lettuce “red Fred” Budget butylated hydroxytoluene buenos dias (a Spanish greeting) buy buff weka buy back (3) building “buy local” building consent accreditation authority buy out (3) building consent authority buy up (3) building-site buyer beware (2) bulk by hokey bulk (acceptable in the sense of “majority of”) bulk fund (v.) by-law (n.); bylaw-making (adj.) bulk funded (2) BYO bulk funding (1) “bzzzz” bull bulldust (euphemism for bullshit) bull’s roar bull’s wool bullet “bullet” (marijuana wrapped in tinfoil) bulletproof bully boy (n.); bully-boy (adj.) February 2004

cash C cash basis holder C+; C- cash flow (1) Cabinet (Cabinet committees and caucus cash in (3) committees all lower case) cash-strapped Cabinet-caucus committee on private provision for cashgora (cashmere and angora) retirement cast iron (n.); cast-iron (adj.) Cabinet government casualise (v.); casualisation (n.) Cabinet minute CAB(93)M29/3 Cabinet Office catch Cabinet Manual (from 2001; was Cabinet Office catch-and-release (attrib.) Manual); paragraph 2.77 catchcry Cabinet paper No. 17 catch up (3) Cabinet, Secretary of the shadow Cabinet category cable jointer; cable jointing (1) categorical category I, II (Historic Places Trust) cabochon (paua) category 1A, 1B, 1C, 2D, 2E, etc. (re socio- “Calcimine” kid economic status of schools) calibre Catlins, the .22 rifle; .303 rifle scanner; CAT scanning calicivirus (re rabbits) cattle call cattle-feed call back (3) cattle-tick call diversion (n., adj.) cattle-yard call in (3) caucus call option Alliance caucus call out (3) Labour caucus Calvert formula (re Māori reserved land) National caucus camera caucus cameraperson; camerapeople caudal fold (of cattle) camping ground (1) cause is/was Cam Ranh Bay - The cause of the plane crash was [NOT due to] Cancun (Mexico) bad weather. candidate profile statement (re elections) CBD = central business district “can-doer” CBU = completely built up cannabinoid CCA = chromated copper arsenate; copper canola (variety of rapeseed) chrome arsenate capacity for work test [NOT incapacity for work test] CCA = current cost accounting capital CCGT = combined-cycle gas turbine capital charging regime C classification (Historic Places Trust) capital expenditure price index Cc standard (Ministry of Health water supply capital-intensive classification) capital J CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) CAPTEC = chilled atmosphere packaging CDV = current domestic value technology cell site car cement car-case cement in (v.); cementing-in (n., adj.) car lot cement making (1) car-park; car-parking cement stone carbon dioxide [NOT CO2]; carbon monoxide Cenotaph () Card Creek (West Coast) central cardiothoracic central Auckland caregiver; care-provider central business district cargo-cult (adj.) Central Europe cargon (re transportation of goods) central government cark (v., to die) Central Hawke’s Bay carry Central Otago carry forward (3) Central Valley (Selwyn) carry on (3); carrying(s)-on centre (n., adj., political) carry over (3) centre-left; centre-right carve up (3) century case 4th century case by case 21st century case in which / where CEPI = capital expenditure price index case-manage (v.) CER = Closer Economic Relations case wait (n., re hospital waiting-lists) ceramicware caseinate Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly) February 2004

“cert” charge certainly (avoid repetitive usage) fixed-charge (attrib.) cervical Charolais (cattle breed) cervical cancer programme; cervical cancer chassepot (old-fashioned breech-loading rifle) screening programme Chatham cervical screening (1) Chatham House Rule (under which views are CFC = chlorofluorocarbon expressed freely but in confidence) CFC = controlled foreign company Chatham Island (main island) chain (unit of measurement; sing. and pl.) Chatham Islanders; islanders chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson Chatham Islands (the group) (presiding officer outside the House; for example, of Chatham Rise a select committee) CHE = Crown health enterprise; “CHEs” (if making acting chair, chairman/chairwoman/chairperson, a pun) the; Mr/Madam Acting Chair/Chairman/ Chechnya Chairwoman/Chairperson check chair/chairman/chairwoman/chairperson, the; check-off levy Mr/Madam Chair/Chairman/Chairwoman/ checkout (n., adj.); check out (v.) Chairperson cheerlead (v.) Chairman Cunliffe cheeseparing (careful or mean with money) deputy chair/chairman/chairwoman/chairperson, chequebook the; Mr/Madam Deputy Chair/Chairman/ cherimoya (fruit) Chairwoman/Chairperson Chernobyl elevation to the chair in the chair chiacking Minister in the chair Chi-Chi (Korea; re earthquake) ruling from the chair chicken took the chair Chicken Licken Chair, Chairman, Chairwoman, Chairperson chicken meat (presiding officer in the House) chief Chair/Chairman/Chairwoman/Chairperson, the; Chief Archivist Mr/Madam Chair/Chairman/Chairwoman/ Chief Censor of Film and Literature; chief censor Chairperson Chief Community Magistrate; community magistrate Chairman of Committees (defunct); Deputy Chief District Court Judge; District Court judge Chairman of Committees (defunct) Chief Electoral Officer elevation to the Chair Chief High Court Judge in the Chair Chief Human Rights Commissioner ruling from the Chair Chief Inspector of Air Accidents temporary Chair/Chairman/Chairwoman/ Chief Judge Chairperson, the; Mr/Madam Temporary Chief Judge of the Employment Court Chair/Chairman/Chairwoman/Chairperson Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court took the Chair Chief Justice chalkface Chief of Air Staff Challenger Plateau Chief of Defence Force chamber Chief of General Staff Chief of Naval Staff Chamber (the House of Representatives) Chief Ombudsman chamber of commerce; Wellington Chamber of Chief Registrar of Electors Commerce chiefs of staff debating chamber Legislative Council Chamber child second Chamber childcare Upper Chamber “child grooming” (re child pornography) chancellor childproof child rearing (1) chancellor of Victoria University child resistant (2) , chancellor-designate of Victoria child sex offender (re offence of sex with children) University child support (n., adj.) vice-chancellor chilled atmosphere packaging technology change over (3) China channel catfish Chinese Middle Kingdom “Channel Nine” (Prime Minister’s office on ninth Communist China floor Great Wall of China of Beehive) Mainland China “chap-ess” (feminine form of chap) People’s Republic of China chapter Chinese Taipei chapter 1 Chinese wall (n., adj.) Chapter I of the report on the Review of Standing chipwood Orders chlorofluorocarbon 12; chlorofluorocarbon 115 Chapter I of the Standing Orders chloropicrin (soil fumigant) February 2004

chocky (adj., re chocolate) clause 87(1)(a); clauses 100 to 102 choice of law (2) clause 22, “New Schedules inserted”, cholesteramine clause 22 states: “New Schedules inserted—The Chondrilla juncea (skeleton weed) principal Act is amended ...” clause by clause chook-house commencement clause (clause 2) chopping-block claw back (3) chose in action (legal term) Clayton’s Chosen People (Jews) clean Christian clean break (adj.) Christianise clean-coal (adj.; non-polluting use of coal) Christian minister of religion “clean desk” policy (Inland Revenue Department) unchristian clean, green (adj.); “clean, green” brand Christmas clean slate (n., adj.); clean-slated; clean slating Christmas Eve clean up (3) Christmas Past; Christmas Present clear Christmas time (n.); Christmas-time (adj.) clear-fell (v.); clear-felling (n.) Father Christmas clear up (3) happy Christmas, a Clendon (in Manurewa) merry Christmas and a happy New Year, a clerk chromated copper arsenate (a timber preservative) Clerk at the Table chuff (n., buttocks) clerk of the committee Chunuk Bair Clerk of the House; the Clerk church Clerk of the Writs Anglican Church (collective body); Anglican church Clerk’s Office (specific church building) committee clerk Catholic Church (collective body) clever alec Church and State cliché-ridden Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; cliff Latter-day Saints cliff-face Churchillian cliff-top CIATS = “Cook Islands accounting techniques” “”; “Clintonesque” CIF = cost, insurance, freight “clocking”; “clocked” (re tampering with odometer) cigarette close (near) cigarette ignited (2) close-grazed cigarette smoking (1) closer economic relations are circumstance in which / where; in the close (shut down) circumstance close down (3) citizen close off (v.); closing-off (n., adj.) citizens advice bureau(s) cloud-seeding citizens initiated referenda clover root weevil (Sitona lepridus; aka Sitona city weevil) capital city clozapine (epilepsy drug) city missioner city councillor; Christchurch city councillor CLS = continuous linked settlement (CLS)# city dwelling (1) (banking term) city-gate price “Club MED” (when referring to Ministry of Economic city of Wellington; Wellington City Development) Queen City (Auckland) cluster-focused economic development civil Clutha, Lower; Clutha, Upper civilianisation CNG = compressed natural gas (CNG)# civil service; civil servant co (prefix) CJD = Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)# co-defendant “clapometer” coemption clapped-out co-leader of the Greens (text); (Co-Leader— class Greens) (setting up) class II (fruit) co-location (re telecommunications) class V land (forestry) co-manage class 1 (gambling) cooperate, cooperation; non-cooperation class 1 road cooperative BUT re title of legislation follow the class 5 (hospital) style of the legislation; non-cooperative; class A drug uncooperative “class of ‘81” co-op first-class citizen coordinate; coordination; uncoordinated middle-class (adj.); middle class (n.) co-payment Typhoon-class submarine co-terminal flights clause coachbuilder; coachworker coal February 2004

clean-coal (adj.; non-polluting use of coal) select committee, at a / in a / on a coal-dust common coal-house common-owned coalmine common-sense (adj.); common sense (n.) coal-pit Commonwealth coal-yard British ; British coalition Commonwealth coalition agreement; paragraph 5.1 Commonwealth Arts Festival coalition dispute committee (formal name); disputes Commonwealth Games; the games committee (informal name) Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional coalition of countries Meeting coalition of the willing (re war with Iraq) Commonwealth of Australia fundamental dispute process (re coalition Commonwealth Parliamentary Association agreement) communist Labour-Alliance coalition Government “com” Peters-Bolger coalition commie coastal occupation charge(s) “commo” Coaster (person from East Coast or West Coast of Communist China New Zealand) communist-controlled cobbled together (2) communist-led Code Division Multiple Access community cognisant community secure accommodation cold community magistrate cold turkey (n.); cold-turkey (adj.) community-minded cold water (n.); cold-water (adj.) community wage; community wage earner collar-stud company colleague Co. (in company names) - My colleague the member for New Lynn made a company law speech on this matter. compare to (liken to); compare with (dissimilar) - BUT The member for New Lynn, Mr Goff, made a competitive price volume basis speech on this matter. compliment on colonel commandant comply with colour of right (re honestly held belief that an act comprise (to contain, include, or consist of) [NOT was justifiable) used with “is” or “was”, or followed by a preposition] combined-cycle (attrib.) computerised axial tomography come concerning (acceptable in the sense of “about”, BUT come back (3) do not use at the start of a sentence) come down (3) - The bill is of concern because ... [NOT The bill is comic book (n.); comic-book (adj.) concerning because ...] commencement clause (clause 2) concern with (involve in); concern about (worry commend for; congratulate on/upon about) commentary concert-goer on a/the bill (separate from actual bill) condition under which ... page 4 of the commentary states conference line (shipping) comment made by; comment of confidant (masculine and feminine) commercial fishing (attrib.) “confirm or deny” policy Commission Opening (of Parliament) conflict of interest register (re Fire Service) committee (Cabinet committees and caucus congratulate on/upon; commend for committees lower case; select committees and con job Committee of the whole House upper case) conscience’ sake, for Business Committee consensus ad idem clerk of the committee conservancy; Conservancy committee, at a / in a / on a conservation committee clerk conservation estate Committee (of the whole House) conservation services levy committee (select committee, etc); Committee (of consolidated account [NOT fund] the whole House) committeeman; committeewoman constant policy assumption (re Budget) Committee of Selection consult [NOT consult with] Committee of Supply consumer price index Committee of the whole House [NOT Committee of consumer price index (n., v.) the whole], in the [NOT at the]; in Committee consumer price index minus X committee on the bills container-load Committee stage [NOT deliberations, hearings] contents (of a/the bill; formerly the analysis) House in Committee continual (recurring frequently); continuous Rules Committee (non-stop and uninterrupted) February 2004

continuous linked settlement (banking term) coupe (area of forest for harvesting) contra (adj., accounting term) couple that/who are (when referring to people) contract out (v.); contracting-out (n.) court controlled foreign company Administrative Division of the High Court controlled-purchase (adj.) Chief Community Magistrate; community Controller and Auditor-General; Auditor-General magistrate Deputy Controller and Auditor-General; Deputy Children and Young Persons Court (now Youth Auditor-General Court) convention coroners’ court (general reference); Coroner’s ILO convention Court (specific sitting) ILO Convention 89 Court (when personified) the convention Court of Appeal Courts Martial Appeal Court “Cook Islands accounting techniques” district court (when referring to a building) cool District Court(s) (was Magistrate’s Court) cool off (v.); cooling-off (n., adj.) electoral court; Hunua Electoral Court cool-store Employment Court Coopers Lagoon (Muriwai) Environment Court Copacabana Family Court(s) cop out (3) “friend at court” copper High Court copper chrome arsenate (a timber preservative) High Court Rules copper mine Inn(s) of Court copper ware Labour Court (now Employment Court) copper wire network (telephone lines etc.) lawcourt corner Magistrate’s Court (now District Court) cornerpiece Māori Appellate Court corner store Māori Land Court “” (re genetically modified corn being grown Master of the High Court; master in New Zealand) Native Land Court (became Māori Land Court) coroner Supreme Court (defunct; also proposed) a coroner warden’s court Wellington Coroner Youth Court(s) corporatise; corporatisation court cases corrections - In re Morgan; the circumstances described in corrections complaints system In re Morgan corrections prison - the Morgan case; in the case of Morgan corrections system - Pickering v Auckland District Law Society inspector of corrections - Re Biddle; the circumstances described in Re Biddle “cossie club” (Cosmopolitan Club) - the Queen v Hines; R v Hines; the Hines case cost Courtenay Place cost-benefit ratio; benefit-cost ratio cost-cutter; cost cutting (1) cover up (3) cost leading (1) cow cost of living cow-bail cost recovery cow-cocky cost-shift (v.); cost shifting (1) cowshed could’ve = could have (re interjections or informal or cowyard anecdotal quotations) CPI = consumer price index Council, Governor-General in cradle to grave (2) counsel (n., sing. and pl.) craftspeople counsellor crash-hot (2) Counsellors of State crave [NOT crave for] Privy Counsellor(s) crawling-peg exchange counter creche counterargument credentialing (n.) counter-call delivery credit counter-challenge credit card (n., adj.) counter clerk credit creation function counteroffer creditman; creditwoman counter-proposal credit rating (1) counter-purchase credit, give [NOT pay credit, BUT pay tribute] counter-statement Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (human form of bovine counter-terrorism spongiform encephalopathy) country CRI = Crown research institute country of origin (2) crib sheet = schedule of proposed amendments countrypeople etc. (see schedule (in Committee stage)) February 2004

cricket world cup customs officer CROC = Crown-owned company; “CROC” (if pun customs duty re nature of company) Customs Import Prohibition (Aquatic Fauna) Order cross 1989, Amendment No. 1 cross-action customs import prohibition order cross appeal customs order cross-arm customs tariff cross bench; cross-bencher New Zealand Customs Service; Customs Service crossbred (n., adj.); crossbreed (n., v.) [NOT Customs] cross-crewing custom wood crosscurrent cut crosscut cut back (3) cross every “t” and dot every “i”; cross the t’s and cut off (3) dot the i’s cut out (3) cross-fertilise cutting cross landing-strip cutting-right cross lease (n., v.); cross-lease (adj.) cutting-room crossover (n., adj.); cross over (v.) cuz, cuzzies cross-purposes CV cross-runway CVR = cockpit voice recorder cross-subsidisation cyber- New Zealand Cross (from 20 September 1999) cyber-citizen crossing-keeper cyber-crime Crown cycleway Crown agent (proposed; entity that is not a Cyclone Bola company, and has a close working Cyperus rotundus (nutgrass) relationship with the Government) Crown bank account czar = tsar Crown counsel Czech Republic Crown entity Crown health enterprise (became health and hospital service) Crown health provider (includes hospital and health service) Crown land Crown-owned company (proposed) Crown prosecutor Crown research institute Crown Settlement Account Crown solicitor rights and prerogative of the Crown succession to the Crown cryptosporidium crystal-clear CS spray (orithochloroperzo-mellonoatryl) cuckoo-land “Cullen fund” culmination [NOT final culmination] cumec (measurement; unit of flow equal to 1 cubic metre per second) current, currently current cost accounting currently (now); presently (soon) current, present (put what member said if necessary to include) curriculum (all school subjects); English curriculum; English and mathematics curricula customary customary fishing right customary rights holder(s) customary rights order (re foreshore and seabed) recognised customary activity (re foreshore and seabed) territorial customary rights (re foreshore and seabed) customs

February 2004

death D death-dealing DAA = depreciation and amortisation death-defying “Dad’s army” death-knock (adj.) Daily Keno debating chamber dairy debenture-holder dairy farm; dairy farmer; dairy farming (1) debt dairy land debt-bondage dak (slang name for marijuana) debt collecting (1) Da ; Dj locomotive debt/equity ratio Danish whiteheaded marsh (sheep breed) debt fund (v.) danum absque injuris debt-relief dark age (a period of supposed unenlightenment); debt restructuring (1) the Dark Ages (Europe circa 5th to 10th centuries) debt scheduling (1) darnedest debt servicing (1) data debt shifting (1) data (can take a singular or plural verb) debt shuffling (1) data collecting (1) decade data match (v.) two decades data matching (1) decarceration (reduction in rate of imprisonment) data processing (1) decile 1, decile 1a, decile 2, decile 3, decile 4 date stamp (n.); date-stamp (v.) (socio-economic status, schools) day decision 2-day (adj.) make a decision [NOT take a decision] 2 days a week; 2-day-a-week (adj.) decision maker; decision making (1) 2 days old; 2-day-old(s) (n.); 2-day-old (adj.) deckhouse 2 days; 2 long days Declaration/Oath of Allegiance 2 days’ time; 2 days late dedicated smoking room 2-day week; 2-day-week (adj.) deemed day 2 of the course deemed profiling (re electricity use) day by day (2) deemed regulation (delegated legislation outside day care (n.); day-care (adj.) the day one, from; day 2 of the course traditional regulation-making process) day or two deemed value (n.); deemed-value (adj.) day shift (n.); day-shift (adj.) deep day to day (2) deep sea (n.); deep-sea (adj.); deep-sea perch; DC = direct current (DC)# deep seabed D classification (Historic Places Trust) deep water (n.); deep-water (adj.) Dd standard (Ministry of Health water supply deer classification) deer farming (1) DDD (chemical; breakdown product of DDT) deer meat DDE (chemical) deer slaughtering (1) DDT de facto (n., adj.) de (prefix; usually one word) defect in workmanship; defect of judgment or de-acidify character de-aerate defence de-aggregation Air Force (New Zealand) de-air Army (New Zealand) de-amalgamation defence force(s); Defence Force (New Zealand) de facto(s) (n., adj.) defence headquarters de-ice defence review (annual report) deinstitutionalisation Ministry of Defence delicensing Navy (New Zealand) de-link New Zealand Defence Force demilitarised zone Secretary of Defence (New Zealand); Secretary of de-mine (v.); de-mining (n.) Defense (US) derecognise; derecognition services, the de-Stalinisation deferred de-unionise deferred deduction rule (to combat aggressive tax devanning site (re container storage) arrangements) de-water deferred payment lease; deferred payment licence dead deficit switch dead-drunk de-form (opposite of reform) dead-end degrees dead-scared academic (use abbreviation only if said by member deaf-mute and follows a person’s name) dealer’s plate; dealers’ plates - a Bachelor’s degree in history February 2004

- a Master’s degree in science diisooctyl acid - BA; BA (Oxon.) - Failed dimension - Bertha Dixon BA, LLB 3-D - MSc; PhD Dipogon lignosus (mile-a-minute) compass (use word not symbol) dining-table - 180-degree turn dinner temperature (use word not symbol) dinner adjournment - 10 degrees Celsius, 20 degrees Fahrenheit dinner break delegated legislation dinoflagellate (toxic water-borne organism) demilitarised zone diocese de minimis rule; de minimis non curat lex (maxim Anglican Diocese of Auckland that the law does not concern itself with trifling diquat (for control of lakeweed) matters) direct Democrat(s) (member(s) of NZ Democratic Party) direct credit (n.); direct-credit (adj., v.) de mortuis direct resourcing (n.); direct-resourcing (adj.) demur at; demur to direct selling (n.); direct-selling (adj.) demutualise (v.); demutualisation (n.) dirt “denial of service” attack (re electronic dirt bag communications; to deny access to a resource) “dirt file” department of State; State Department (US) “dirt unit”; “DIRT unit” (when used as an acronym) dependant (n.); dependent (adj.) dirty trick (n.); dirty-trick (adj.) Depression (of the 1930s); Great Depression; disappointed in a person, plan, result; disappointed 1930s Depression with a thing deputy, Deputy disaster-recovery (adj.) deputy chair/Chair, the; Mr/Madam Deputy Chair disburse (relates to financial matters); disperse (to deputy chairman/chairwoman/chairperson, the; spread, scatter, or disseminate) Mr/Madam Deputy Chairman/Chairwoman/ discursion (n.) Chairperson disenfranchise [NOT disfranchise] Deputy Chief Censor of Film and Literature; deputy disinterested (impartial) [NOT lack of interest]; chief censor uninterested (not interested) Deputy Clerk of the House; Deputy Clerk disk (computer) Deputy Controller and Auditor-General; Deputy Auditor-General disperse (to spread, scatter, or disseminate); deputy leader of the Alliance disburse (relates to financial matters) Deputy Leader of the House dissent from deputy leader of the National Party [NOT deputy dissociate [NOT disassociate] Leader of the Opposition] distinguished by talent; distinguished for honesty; Deputy Mayor of Far North District distinguished from another person Deputy distress damage feasant rule of law Deputy Prime Minister district Deputy Speaker, the; Mr/Madam Deputy Speaker district court (when referring to a building) derris dust District Court judge; Judge Brown DES = diethylstilboestrol district roads council; No. 1 District Roads Council designate Rodney District chief executive designate divert from/to Prime Minister designate divide and rule (adj.) “designer jeans” socialist dividend detective sergeant; Detective Sergeant Jones dividend on (investment) detente dividend withholding (1) Deutschmark; DM8.27 Divine Providence (God); divine providence of Devils Creek (near Reefton) God devoid of division bell [NOT bells] Dhofar (Oman) division one (re Lotto) d’Hondt electoral system divvy up (3) dial DJ “dial-a-pom” system Dj locomotive; Da locomotive dial-a-ride system DMZ = demilitarised zone diarrhoeatic shellfish poisoning DNA diesanol do-able Diet (legislative assembly; especially in Japan) do a runner di-ethylene glycol dob-in-a-beneficiary line (0800 line) diethylstilboestrol Dobson unit differ with a person; differ from something; doctor differ on an issue doctor’s visit; doctors’ visits different from [NOT than] Dr Lewis [NOT Doctor] dihydrogen monoxide (hydric acid) “Dr Muldoon”; “Dr Wright” (John Wright) February 2004

document dreamt [NOT dreamed] document(s) presented/tabled DRG = diagnostic-related group document states: “This option is ...” [NOT document drier (adj., adv.); dryer (n.) says:] BUT This document says nothing about it. drift dog drift gill-net fishing dog tucker driftnet doggy doo-doo(s) drill dogo; dogo Argentino (breed of dog) drill book Doidge room (press room) drill hall dole heap drink, drunk dollar anti - drinking-driving (adj., thin spaces) 45c in the dollar; NZ$1 drink-driver; drinker-driver; drunken driver devaluation of the dollar drink-driving; drinking-driving; drunken driving dollar for dollar drive, driven dollars to doughnuts drive-by (adj.) do-nothing (adj.) driver licensing (1) “don’t knows” driver’s licence (n.) [NOT driving licence]; drivers’ doolan licences (pl.); driver’s-licence (adj.) doom-monger drive time door-knocking driving force driving-hour Dorothy Dix question (patsy question) P (endorsement of driver’s licence) dot-com; dot-com companies profit driven (2) Dothistroma pini (needle blight) drop dothistromin (chemical compound) drop down (3) dot the i’s and cross the t’s; dot every “i” and drop in (v.); drop-in (adj.) cross every “t” drop off (3) double dropout (n., adj.); drop out (v.) double-charging drought double-deal; double-dealing drought-afflicted double digit (n.); double-digit (adj.) drought-hit double dip (v.); double-dipping drought-relief double-manning drought-stricken double tax agreement DRS = directly resourced school double-up (n.); double up (v.) drug doubt, doubtful (should be followed by “whether”, drug dealing (1) except when the sentence is in the negative, in drug-dependent which case should be followed by “that”) drug-free doubting Thomas(es) druggie doughnuts (re boy racers) drug-related Doug Kidd Peak (fishing-ground) drugs in sport (n.); drugs-in-sport (adj.) Dow Jones index (more than one) drug taking (1) down drug trafficking (1) down and out (2) dry down at heel (2) dry (n., adj., favouring strict monetarist policies); “down home” wets and drys downscaling (n.) dry-as-dust (attrib.); dry as dust (predic.) downside (adverse consequence; re sharemarket) dryclean; drycleaning downsize dry farming downskill dry goods down-to-earth dry-retch (v.) downtown (n., attrib.); down town (predic.) dry shareholder/shareholding (not actively involved) down trou (v., n.); down-trou’ed dry sow stall DPL = deferred payment lease licence dryer (n.); drier (adj., adv.) Dr DSL (digital subscriber line; high-speed Internet Dr Abernethy [NOT Doctor] access) “Dr Muldoon” DSP = diarrhoeatic shellfish poisoning “Dr Wright” (John Wright) DU = Dobson unit draftsman (of bills); draughtsman (of plans); dual law draftsman dual-fuel (adj.) drain dual permitting regime (re aquaculture) drainlayer dual operator (n., adj.) drainlaying duck draughtsman (of plans); draftsman (of bills); duck-pond law draftsman duck-shove; duck-shoving draw down (3) “due dither-ence” (, re Air New Zealand dreamchild crisis) February 2004

due to (acceptable as a preposition) dumping-ground (n.) (massacre site, Scotland) Dundas Island (Auckland Islands) dune land dunger during [NOT during the course of] durry (cigarette) Dust Bowl (US); dust bowl duty-bound dwarfs; seven dwarfs dye dyed-in-the-wool dye vat dyeworks dyke (embankment; lesbian)

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egg pulp E ejusdem generis (rule; of the same kind or nature) e- (prefix for electronic) elect e-commerce president-elect; President-elect (of a country) e-government Prime Minister elect e-procurement Speaker-Elect e-tailer (n., retails through the Internet) electricity each (sing., takes a singular verb) electricity generating (1) EAP = employment assistance programme electricity lines business; lines business EAP = environmental assessment procedure electricity supply [NOT electric supply] ear electric shock (n.); electric-shock (adj.) ear labelling (1) electrocardiac ear-set “electronic herd” (global financial speculators; term ear-tag coined by Friedman) early electronic “seeds” (generate random numbers for “early bird” betting lottery) early childhood (adj.) elements early-release (adj.) carbon dioxide [NOT CO2] earned [NOT earnt] eleventh hour earners Elizabethan Age earners account earners levy El Nino non-earners account Elysian Fields (Greek mythology) Earth (planet) embassy east New Zealand Embassy in Thailand; the embassy; east Asia Embassy of Japan; Japanese Embassy East Coast () emergency response (2) Eastlight (stationery) Emily’s List (US; re promoting women political Eastern candidates) Eastern emphasise Eastern bloc empire building (1) Eastern Europe employer Eastern European State employers account (re accident compensation) eastern flower thrip employer’s contribution; employers’ contributions Eastern Hemisphere (re superannuation fund withdrawal tax) eastern Polynesia employment easy-to-read (attrib.) employment centre; Porirua Employment Centre EBIT = earnings before interest and tax Employment Court EBITDA = earnings before interest, tax employment creating (1) depreciation, and amortisation employment-paid (adj.) EBL = enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL)# employment relations education leave Echinococcus granulosis (causes hydatids) employment-subsidised Ecklonia (type of seaweed) emptying-out (n.) eco (prefix) enamoured of ecofest encrust eco-nation encyclopaedia eco-park end eco-tax(es) end-of-life (attrib.) eco-terrorism end-of-year ecotourism end-stage (adj.) eco-village end use E. coli; E. Coli 0111:k58 endways [NOT endwise] ECT = electroconvulsive therapy ended (refers to what is past); ending (refers to what ECU = European currency unit is to come) “educare” - the year ended 30 June 1991 - the year ending 30 June 2018 educate for an occupation; educate in the arts energy efficient (2); energy-efficiency (attrib.) educationalist; educationist engine yard EEO = equal employment opportunities English Ee standard (Ministry of Health water supply “English disease” (re Bill English) classification) English language (n.); English-language (adj.) EFT = Eftpos English speaking (1) EFTS = equivalent full-time student(s) enquire = inquire e.g. = for example enquiry = inquiry egg enraged against/with a person; enraged at an eggnog action egg powder entertained by a person; entertained with food and February 2004

drink member, Minister, etc.] entrust something to someone; entrust someone ex abundanti cautela with something ex gratia “envy tax” ex-nuptial enzootic bovine leukosis (AIDS-like cow disease) ex-serviceman eponymous ancestor (person from whom an iwi is ex-service people descended) ex-wife EPS = earnings per share Excellency Excellency, Her; Excellency, His; Excellencies, equal, equally Their equal employment opportunities Her Excellency Dame Cath(erine) Tizard equally [NOT equally as] equal-pegging Excel spreadsheet Equator (of Earth) excess added value system of accounting equity sharing (1) excise-equivalent duty breath equivalent full-time student(s) exclamations Ah! Ermera (East Timor) Aha! Erskine May’s Parliamentary Practice; Erskine Aw! May By Jove! Eskimo(s) Come, come! essential [NOT important essential] For goodness’ sake! estimate [NOT estimate about] Gee whiz! estimates Good Lord! estimates (departmental votes) Goodness gracious me! estimates, inland revenue Great Scott! Estimates (book; acceptable reference) Ha! Estimates of Appropriations (book; acceptable Ha, ha! reference) Hear, hear! Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of Heavens to Betsy! New Zealand (book) Heavens to Murgatroyd! output D6 (in motions); output class D6, which Hmm! refers to (in debate) Hooray! page 292 of the Estimates, volume I, Hurrah! part B1 My word! Vote Education; Education vote Not on your nelly! etc. (and so on); et ceteras (extras, sundries) No way! ETOPS = extended-range twin-engine operations Oh! ETS = environmental tobacco smoke Oh dear! et seq. (sing.); et seqq. (pl.) Oh, for heaven’s sake! Oh, oh! et sequens; et sequentia Order! ETT = “exempt/taxed/taxed” superannuation Phooey! regime Pshaw! euro, Euro Shh! euro (currency introduced 1999) Strewth! - €$6 million Thank goodness! Euromoney Thank heaven! Euro-NZ; Euro-Kiwi Tut, tut! Euro-Parliament Yawn! Euro-yen Yee-ha! “e-vangelist” (Maurice Williamson) exclusive economic zone ever excusal ever-increasing executive ever-present executive (branch of Government) ever-ready Executive Council ever-widening executive of the National Party every executive wing (Beehive) everybody (sing., takes a singular pronoun) exempli gratia every day (each day); everyday (adj.) exempt-employer (adj.) everyone (all; sing., takes a singular pronoun); every “exempt/exempt/taxed” one of “exempt/taxed/taxed” superannuation regime everyone else’s exercise yard evidence exonerate from evidence-in-chief exotoxicity evidence of age (adj.) expect, anticipate (to anticipate something is to look ewe-equivalents ahead to it and prepare for it, not to make a ex (prefix) [NOT to be used in relation to a former reasonable estimate; its strict meaning is to forestall February 2004

or to foresee and take action) - He expected a wage increase, but he did not receive it. However, in anticipation of a wage increase he bought a washing machine. expense (v., to deduct full cost of any item) experience experience [NOT experience in the past] experience-rating expert at tennis; expert with a tennis racquet Expiring Laws Continuance Bill/Act (was introduced after ) explanatory note [NOT notes] of a bill exploitive export education industry (re international students) extax extemporise extra special (2) eye eye appeal eye bank eye-strain

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FDWP = foreign dividend-withholding payment F fearmongering fa’afafine (Samoan term for male transvestite) feather-bedding facade FEC = forward error correction face federal, Federal faced by a problem; faced with elector hostility Federal Government (e.g., Australian central face to face (2) government); a federal Government north face (of a mountain) Federal Government of Germany south face (of a mountain) Federated Farmers are fact-pack fee facts [NOT true facts] fee-payer Faipule (elected leader of atoll, Tokelau); Ulu fee simple title Faipule (chief Faipule) feedlot fall feel-good (adj.) fall back (3) fall off (3) Feilding fall out (3) fellow fall web worm Dr So-and-So, Fellow of the Royal Society Falun Gong fellow man family fence-sitting families that/who; members of families who fern leaf; fernleaf (emblem, pattern) Family Court ferrosilicon family-friendly (adj.) ferry the family is/are ferry boat fanau (Samoan for extended family) ferry bridge Fangataufa (nuclear test site) fess up; fessed up fan-mail fewer (use with plural noun, followed by plural verb); Fantasy (designer drug) less (use with singular noun followed by singular far (acceptable for distance and in the sense of verb) “much” or “many”) - Fewer eggs were needed. BUT One less egg was as far as that [NOT that far] needed. far left (n., predic.); far-left (attrib.) - Less ham was needed. far north; Far North (electorate; defunct) - less than $750; receiving $20 less than in 1990; far-reaching BUT seven fewer dollars far right (n., predic.); far-right (attrib.) FIA = fluorescent indicator absorption farm fibre-optics (n.); fibre-optic (adj.) farmer-supplier fibrolite farm gate (n.); farm-gate (adj.) fibromyalgia farm-in fibrous plaster farm-kill (adj.) field farmland field artillery farm-out field battery farm owner field gun farm purchase loan field-trial (v.) farm vendor finance fifth farther (distance); further (more) fifth-column(ist) “fart tax” fifth form FAS = free alongside ship (adj.) fifth-former fast “fifty-oner” (veteran of 1951 waterfront lockout) fastest growing (2) figure fast-ferry (n.) six-figure salary fast-growing Fijian Indian fast track (n.,v.); fast-track (adj.) fila brasiliero (breed of dog) “fated five” (re Michelle Boag’s list of National film maker; film making (1) members) final father final culmination = culmination Father Christmas final offer (n.); final-offer (adj.) father-confessor finance, Finance father of the House Finance Bill, Finance bills (full name or incomplete Fatumaka (East Timor) reference); finance bills (descriptive) fault Finance Minister (of another country) [NOT faultfinder; faultfinding Treasury Minister] fault line financial fax Current-Year Fiscal Update (document) FBLN = foreign bond linked notes financial institutions tax FBT = fringe benefit tax financial reporting standard No. 13 FCPI = farm costs price index financial review debate February 2004

Financial Statement (the Budget) fishing-net Financial Statements (book; acceptable reference) fish meal, a; fishmeal (fertiliser) financial statements (Government’s accounts) fish meat Financial Statements of the Government of New fish oil Zealand (book showing state of Government’s underfish (v.); underfishing accounts; issued twice a year) fisheries services levy financial transactions tax FIT = financial institutions tax fine-sounding FITC = foreign investor tax credit fine-tuning fit out (3) fin-fish fix, fixed finger fixed-charge (attrib.) finger-food fixed exchange rate finger-in-the-wind (adj.) fixed line-charge (qualified n.) finger-pointing fixed-odds (adj.) finger-prick fixed-time debate fingerstall “Mr Fix-it” forefinger; index finger fizz-boat fore, middle, and little fingers flag carrier Finn Dorset (sheep breed) flagship industrial park (Singaporean industrial park Finnish landrace (sheep breed) located in another country) fiord flaky left fire flamingo(es) fire blight (fruit disease) flat firebrigadesman flat earners premium (re accident insurance) fire-resistant flat stick fire safe (2); fire safety (1) flat tax fire sale (n.); fire-sale (adj.) “flatulence tax” firearms licence flavourant first flax first XI; first XV flaxcutter first class (n.); first-class (adj.) flaxcutting “first come, first served” (attrib.); first come, first flaxgrower served (predic.) flaxmill first degree (n.); first-degree (adj.) flaxroot first ever (2) flock owner first-hand (adj., adv.) first home ownership flood “first in, first served” (attrib.); first in, first served flood-damage work (predic.) flood race first-loss (adj.) floor First Nation(s) (North American Indians); first nation floor level (n.); floor-level (adj.) (n.), first-nation (adj.; re Māori) floor space first past the post (2) flourbag; flourmiller first reading, first reading debate (of a bill) flower-grower first schedule flow on (3) first specialist assessment (re medicine) flu first time (2) fluff up (3) first to file (2) Fluffy Duck (cocktail) First World fluorescent indicator absorption First World War fly first-year (adj.) fly-by-nighter(s) (n.) first, firstly (when listing points all the following are fly spray acceptable) flystrike (re sheep) first, secondly, thirdly FM (re radio broadcasting) firstly, secondly, thirdly first, second, third FOB = free on board fiscal drag FOBS = free on board stowed (adj.) Fischer-Tropsch method (re natural gas) focus fish, fishing people-focused profit-focused fish bone fisherchildren foetal alcohol syndrome fisher people fold fishhook twofold; fifteenfold fishing area 2B follow fishing-boat follow on (3) fishing fleet follow through (3) fishing-ground follow up (3) fishing-licence fonged (adj., drunk) February 2004

fono (meeting) free food free alongside ship (adj.) food bank; food-barn free-calling (attrib.) food-borne (adj.) free enterprise (n.); free-enterprise (adj.) food handling (1) freeing up (n., adj.) foot-and-mouth disease; foot-and-mouth (n.); free-market (adj.) fopms = “friends of the Prime Minister”; “fopms” free on board stowed (adj.) (if issue being made of acronym) freephone forbear from (abstain, desist); forebear (ancestor) free-rider free to air (2) force 9 earthquake free trade (n.); free-trade (adj.) force de frappe free up (3) forcible freezing works; freezing workers fore (prefix) freight forwarder forebear (ancestor); forbear from (abstain, desist) freshwater (adj.); fresh water (n.) forego, foregone (go/gone before); forgo, forgone (do/done without) friant (dainty, delicious) fore, middle, and little fingers Friedmanite fore-part “friend at court” foreshore licence friendly society foreign fringe benefit tax foreign bond linked notes from foreign exchange surcharge from thence = thence foreign-flag ship from whence = whence foreign-going (adj.) front foreign investor tax credit front bench (n., physical seat, personification); Foreign Minister(s) (of another country) front-bench (adj.); front-bencher foreign-qualified (attrib.) front country (2) forest front-end loader forest owner front-foot (v.) forest processing (1) front line (n.); front-line (adj.) forever front-man FOREX = foreign exchange front of, in (physical location); before (for the forgo, forgone (do/done without); forego, foregone attention of) (go/gone before) front-person form front up form 4; form 5C front-woman forms 1 to 7 school(s) Opposition front bench; Labour Opposition front third form (n.); third-form (adj.); third-former bench former frostfish - former (refers only to the first of two things); latter fruit (refers only to the second of two things) fruit farm - former, a (past); previous, the (immediately fruit farmer preceding) fruit fly (n., adj.) former [NOT was a former] fruitgrower formulae fruit loop(s) “a” over “b” fruit packer “a” plus “b” equals fruit tree “a” plus “b” theory fruit wine (n.); fruit-wine (adj.); sparkling fruit-wine for-profit (attrib.) fryer rabbit Fort Monroe (re US Army) FTSE FTSE; FTSE index forums, fora (put what member said) FTSE 100 index forward-sell (v.) FTSE4Good index (re socially responsible foul investment) foul brood (bee disease Bacillus larvae) FTSE4Good UK 50 index foul mouth (n.); foul-mouthed (adj.) FTSE4Good UK index foul up (3) FTT = financial transactions tax four fuel line four-by-two full four-square (ball game) full-sized Fourth of July full time (n.); full-time (adj., adv.); fulltime-equivalent four-wheel drive full year (2) fowl fun fowlhouse “funnies” fowlyard “funny money” Foxes, Derek (as in “not enough Derek Foxes”) “fun run” FPP = first past the post functus officio February 2004

fundamental dispute process (re coalition agreement) funder/provider fund-raise (v.) furazolidone (drug fed to pigs and poultry) further (more); farther (distance) fusarium mould (attacks grains, especially wheat and barley)

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germ cell; germ layer

G gerontocracy (government by old people) G1; G2; G3 (primary schools classification) gerrymander GAAP = generally accepted accounting practice get (GAAP)# get together (3) Galaxias (genus of fish) get-tough (attrib.) gallantry awards (from 20 September 1999; see get up (3) also get-up-and-go (n., adj.) bravery awards) ghetto New Zealand Gallantry Decoration; NZGD ghettoisation New Zealand Gallantry Medal; NZGM ghettoise New Zealand Gallantry Star; NZGS giant African snail Gambier Island (near Mururoa) giant land snail Gambusia (genus; commonly known as mosquito giardia fish) gigahertz; gigajoule gamebird Gilbert and Ellice Islands (now Kiribati and Tuvalu) gaming gill-net; gill-net fishing; drift gill-net fishing “gaming” (re electricity industry) gaming house gin trap gaming machine (n.); gaming-machine (adj.) gipsy gammaglobulin girl gamma-hydroxybutyrate (Fantasy, etc.) “girl-cott” girl guide; a Guide gang girls’ club, old gang basher “gang of 20” GIS = geographic information system “gang of 70” (academics in favour of retaining MMP) give away (3) “gang of four” lease (re land in Napier produced by the gang war 1931 earthquake) gang-gang cockatoo glass GAQ = good average quality glass house (do not throw stones in); glasshouse Garden Place (Hamilton) (for growing plants in) glassy-winged sharpshooter (insect pest) garrotte glide-time gas gas chromatography global gasfield global 2000 (reference to the millennium) gasfitter global positioning system gas line global stop-loss gaspipe Globe Hill (near Reefton) gas poisoning glutareldehyde (re photography, radiography) gas-to-gasoline plant glyphosphate (type of herbicide) gatekeeping GM (genetically modified / genetic modification) gay liberation; “gay libber” GMFI = guaranteed minimum family income Gazette; New Zealand Gazette GMO (genetically modified organism) gazetted; gazettal GNI = gross national income (GNI)# GBL = gamma butyrolactone go GC = gas chromatography from the word go GDE = general domestic expenditure go-slow (n., adj.) GDP = gross domestic product (GDP)# go to whoa, from GE have a go; have a few goes GE (genetically engineered / genetic engineering) gobbledygook GE free (2) God geep; shoat (goat/sheep mix) God almighty gefangene society (prisoner society) Godhead (God); godhead God’s own country; Godzone gelatine going gender-neutral going to (use sparingly to express intention; usually general “will” can be substituted) General Assembly (House of Representatives and tough going (predic.) Governor-General) gold, golden general principal order Gold Coast (Queensland); “Golden Coast” (New general service medal Zealand) general wage order “golden handcuff student loan forgiveness” scheme generation golden handshake (n., adj.) 2G = second-generation (adj.); (1) a more advanced “golden hour” (hour immediately after a person stage of technology; (2) (re radio spectrum) sustains a critical injury) 3G = third-generation (adj.) (re radio spectrum) “golden oldies” Geneva convention; Geneva protocol “golden rice” (rice fortified with vitamin A) February 2004

“golden triangle” (drug-growing area) successive Governments gold-miner; gold-mining the Government Gomorrah third Labour Government Gondwanaland when in Government Gong xi fa cai (Chinese New Year greeting) whole-of-Government (adj.) good Governor-General good-character (attrib.) Governor-General in Council good-employer (adj.) Governor of New Zealand (title changed on 28 June good-faith (attrib.) 1917 to Governor-General) good Lord Governors-General good-news (attrib.) Governor of the Reserve Bank; governor goodness GP = general practitioner goodness gracious me GPO = general principal order for goodness’ sake! GPS = global positioning system thank goodness grade Goody Two-Shoes A grade (n.); A-grade (adj.) Gorazde (Bosnia) grade 3 teacher “goss” gradual process (adj.) got (usually not necessary; reconstruct) Grafton Gully (Auckland) government (process, system); Government (ruling graffitied body, NZ or overseas) grain a Government grain-fed beef Cabinet government grain-grower change of Government grain growing (1) central government gram coalition Government grand Democratic Government (specific); Democratic five grand; 50 grand Government (general); democratic government grand coalition (National and Labour) (process) granddaddy e-government grandfather (n., v., to carry over); grandfathering Federal Government (Australia); a federal (n.) Government Grand Hall (Parliament) good government grandparent (v., to carry over); grandparenting (n.) government by diversion grandstand (n., v.) government by division grape Government caucus grape-grower; grape growing (1) Government department grape wine (n.); grape-wine (adj.) Government-funded grass Government-guaranteed grass grub Government House grass roots (n.); grass-roots (adj.) Government in office; Government in power grave-digger Government-in-waiting Government notice of motion No. 1; Government Gray’s Inn (Inn of Court) motion No. 1 (after motion moved) greasyback Government of the day great Government residence policy great beyond Governments around the world Great Depression Government service great fire (of London) Government-sponsored Great Fleet (of to New Zealand) Government to Government great-grandchild(ren) head(s) of Government “Great Helmsman” () inter-Government Great Lakes (Africa) Labour-Alliance coalition Government great powers (countries) Labour Governments Great Scott! Lange Government Great South Basin local government Great Wall of China machinery of government Great War majority Government Greater Auckland “greedies” minority Labour-Alliance Government green minority National Government green (environmental) “more government” (adj.) green ban (n.); green-ban (attrib.) Muldoon Government Green Budget; Green Budget package (re Green “National First” Government Party’s $15 million Budget package) National - New Zealand First Government green crusader (thin spaces) “green dollars” non-governmental organisation “Green dream” (re Land Transport Management open government; open Government Bill) February 2004

“greenies” greening (as in greening the economy) green lane (n., adj.; re customs) Green Lane (suburb); Green Lane Hospital “greenmailing” green paper, a Greens, the Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (thin spaces); Green Party; the Greens; Green “green” prescribing (re Green Prescription Programme) greenshell mussel (formerly green-lipped) greenstick fracture green transaction(s) greenweight (n., adj., re fishing) Wild Greens (a Green Party faction) grey grey-haired (adj.) “grey list” (of countries with similar taxation levels) grief-stricken grievance settling (1) gross national income grossed-up (attrib.) ground groundline (re tree stumps) ground-water Parliament grounds group one, etc. (re racing) grunty GSM (global system for mobile) GST guava moth Guide, a; girl guide gulf gulf, the; gulf islands, the (re Hauraki Gulf) Gulf, the (Persian) Gulf war gum gumdigger gumland; kauri-gum land gum leaf skeletoniser moth gum senegal gum tragacanth gurgler guten Tag (a German greeting) gut-gnawing gutser; gutsful gut-wrenching Gymnodinium mikimotoi (phytoplankton species)

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hard copy (n.); hard-copy (adj.) H hard core (2) H5N1 (avian flu) hardest-working (adj.) Ha!; Ha, ha! hard left; hard right Haakondahl feet (timber measurement) hard line (n.); hard-line (adj.) Habeas Corpus Act (three English Acts: 1640, 1679, hard-liner 1816) hard porn habilitation centre hard-rock Haemophilus influenzae type B hard to get (2) Hague hard-working - He arrived at The Hague. harum-scarum - She said the Hague convention was signed in has to, have to (may be used in the sense of 1993. “forced”, “compelled”, or “obliged”) hair-raiser; hair-raising - I have to stop changing “have to” to “must”. hairy thorn apple hate crime half “haters and wreckers” a half have half a dozen; half-dozen “have”, a half alive (2) haves and have-nots half a mile; half-mile; one half-mile Hawke Bay (coast); (the) Hawke’s Bay (province) half cock, at; half-cocked (adj.) Hawkins half full (2) Hawkins Hill half-g “Hawkins law” (a law that one keeps talking half-miler about introducing, but does not introduce) half-page Hawthorne effect (re research findings) half-past 12 hay-bale; hay-baler half-time (n.); half time (2) Hazari (an Afghan people) halfway HCFC = hydro-chlorofluorocarbon halfwit(ted) head half-year (n., adj.) head lease one-half BUT One half of the flag is red, the other headline grabbing (1) half, black. head of bench halon 1211; halon 1301; halon 2402 “hamburgerology” degree (McDonald’s Hamburger head race University) heads of agreement is Hamburg fowl heads of Government Hamburg grape health care Hampton Downs (near Meremere; proposed landfill health care (unqualified n.) site) - It was a question of health care. hand health-care (qualified n.) handbasin - Good health-care involves everyone. handbasket health-care (adj.) hand-milk - Health-care resources have been increased. hand out (v.); handout (n.) mental health care hands-off (adj.) health-line hands-on (adj.) health-welfare interface hand-tool Heaphy Track hand up (n.); hand-up (adj.) Hear, hear! “hand-up package” (National policy) hearing-ear dog; hearing dog hand-wringing (n., adj.) heart-wrenching HangSeng index (Hong Kong) heat treating (1) hanguva heaven Hanoi heaven’s sake, for Hansard thank heaven Hansard (document) heavy “hansardise” heavy (in the sense of intimidate); heavied; Hansard Office heavying Hansard of the debate heavy drinking (n.); heavy-drinking (adj.) Hansard “pink” (use the volume reference if heavy-engineering (adj.) possible) heavy-laden (adj.); heavily laden Hansard reporter heavy sealift (adj., re lifting device used on ships) Hansard room heavy-transport (adj.) Hansard, Volume 166, at page 160; Hansard, heavy-truck (adj.) Volume 520, at pages 220 to 224 heavy water (n.); heavy-water (adj.) Hanshin (in China) Hector’s dolphin happy Christmas, a “Heleban” (re Smoke-free Environments Bill) hard “Helengrad” (Wellington under Clark as Prime February 2004

Minister) State Highway 1; State highway “Helensville” (a reference to ) Hilgendorf wheat heli hill heli-log hill country (n.); hill-country (adj.) heli-ski hillside hello; “hellos” hilltop helluva hind legs Helms Burton Act (US) Hippobroma longiflora (star of Bethlehem; helping hand (n.); helping-hand (adj.) pua-hoku) Hemisphere, Eastern hire purchase agreement hence [NOT from hence] His “Henry VIII” clause His Excellency; His Excellency Sir Her His Honour Her Excellency; Her Excellency Dame His Majesty Cath(erine) Tizard His Royal Highness Her Honour historic (important in history); historical (of the past) Her Majesty history, a [NOT an] Her Majesty’s loyal Opposition HIV; HIV/AIDS Her Royal Highness Hochstetter snail hereon in hocking-off (n., adj.); hock off (3) Herfindahl index (measure of business Hoddle Street (massacre site, Melbourne) competitiveness) holding pen Hermitage, the (Mount Cook) holding reply (brief interim reply to a question Herstatt risk (re settlement of foreign exchange pending a full reply being given later on) transactions across time zones) hold up (3) Herzegovina hole in the wall (n.); hole-in-the-wall (adj.) Hewletts Road () holidaymaking hexachlorobenzine (persistent organic pollutant) hollow out (3) HHS = hospital and health service; “HHS” (if Holy Grail comparison made with “CHE”) home Hibiscus Coast home-alone (adj.) Hib vaccination (for meningitis) homebake (n.); home-bake (v.) (heroin) Hieracium (weed in tussock grasslands) home builder high (use hyphen in compound adjectives formed home care (n.); home-care (adj.) with “high”) home country high country (n.); high-country (adj.) home-invade (v.) High Court judge home-kill (n.) High Court Rules home life high decile (2) homeowner; homeownership; BUT first home high-income (adj.); high-income earner ownership high-needs (adj., re special education) home-schooling (n., adj.); home-schooler high school (n., adj.) Home Secretary; Secretary of State for the Home high-sea (attrib.); high-seas (attrib.) Department (UK) high tide (n.); high-tide (adj.) home-seller high use health card; high user-charge home-stay (n.) high value added (2) homeworker high voltage direct current home-zone (n., adj.) high water (n.); high-water (adj.) honorarium; honoraria Highbury (; re gangs) honour; honours (use abbreviation only if said by high commission member and follows person’s name) High Commission of Australia (in New Zealand); - Sir Thaddeus McCarthy LLM, KBE Australian High Commission (in New Zealand) honour-bound; in honour bound New Zealand High Commission in Australia; the Honour, Her; Honour, His high commission in Canberra Honours List high commissioner KNZM; DNZM; PCNZM; DCNZM; CNZM; ONZM; High Commissioner for New Zealand in Malaysia; MNZM (see ) High Commissioner in Malaysia; high NZC; NZBS; NZBD; NZBM; NZGS; NZGD; NZGM commissioner (all from 20 September 1999) Malaysian High Commissioner (Malaysia’s OBE; DSO; ONZ representative in New Zealand) QSM; QSO (see Queen) higher (use hyphen in compound adjectives formed VC; VC & Bar (NB ampersand; only honour in which with “higher” word “Bar” is used) higher-duties allowance honourable higher-graded position honourable member; honourable gentleman; higher-income (adj.) honourable lady highway the Hon ; the honourable (not her formal title) February 2004

Hooker’s sea lion hydro works hopefully (acceptable in the sense of both “in a hydroxybutyric hopeful way” and “it is to be hoped”) HYPE = high yielding promotional enterprise - She hopefully took part in the trial of a new hyper/hypo system. hyperglycaemia (too much glucose) - Hopefully, next year will be better. hypoglycaemia (not enough glucose) hori (false, untrue) derogatory reference to Māori; Hōri (transliteration of George) Horn of Africa horse meat hospital hospital and health service(s) (formerly Crown health enterprise) hospital bed charge; hospital part-charge; hospital user charge hostage taking (1); hostage-taker (n.) hot hot blood (n.); hot-blooded (adj.) “hot” money hot-point hot pool hotel a hotel [NOT an] hotelkeeper; private hotel keeper House House hours House in Committee “House invader” (party-hopper) House Office House time Lower House Upper House house housebus housetruck housie howly bagging (complaining) hubbing (shipping term) hubodometer hum and ha hummed and ha’ed humming and ha’ing hums and ha’s human human-assisted reproductive technology human immunodeficiency virus human rights commissioner; Chief Human Rights Commissioner (massacre site, England) Hunters Corner (Papatoetoe) Huntly East hurry along (3) HVDC = high-voltage direct current (HVDC)# “h” word (i.e., hypocrite) hydatids Cysticercus ovis Echinococcus granulosis (true hydatids) Taenia hydatatigena (false hydatids) Taenia ovis hydrilla (lake weed) hydro (prefix, acceptable as an adjective) hydrobromofluorocarbon; hydrochlorofluorocarbon hydrocracker hydro generation hydro lake hydro project

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income and asset test (n., v.) I income and asset testing ia manuia lava (Samoan; thank you very much) income and salary earner ibid; ibidem income earner ICBM = intercontinental ballistic missile income producing (1) ice income protection insurance ice blindness income-related ice cave incomes and prices policy icefloe income-splitting (v.) ice-minus (adj.) income tax payer; taxpayer icepack income tax year ICT = information and communications income test (n., v.); income-test (adj.); income- technology tested (adj.); income testing (1) ID (identification) indeed (use sparingly) identical [NOT exactly identical] independent; independence id est independence allowance (re accident i.e. = that is compensation) independent circumstances allowance ’ie toga (Samoan fine mat) independent Crown entity (proposed; entity that is if not a company, and operates at arm’s length from if (to express a conditional idea); whether (to the Government) express an alternative or possibility); when (to Independent (member of Parliament who stands express an actuality) alone for voting purposes) - Let me know if the member wants to go on independent of Tuesday. (that is, only if the member wants to independent supported living service go) indexes (of books); indices (technical) - Let me know whether the member would prefer Index New Zealand (National Library database) to go on Wednesday. (that is, let me know either way) indictment on - When the sun sets it will get dark. (contains no indifferent to element of condition) individual resale price maintenance if ... then (it is acceptable for the conclusion that Industrial Revolution, the follows a conditional clause starting with “if” to industry-good (attrib.) begin with “when”) INF = intermediate-range nuclear force ifs and buts in fact (use sparingly) IGF = insulin-like growth factors infectious bursal disease (of poultry) ill (hyphen to form adjective, no hyphen for nouns infer; imply formed with “ill”) - listener infers, speaker implies ill breeding (n.) inferior to ill-thought-out inflation-adjust (v.) ill treatment inflation-proof (v.); inflation-proofing ill usage informa pauperis ILO convention 87 information ILO convention information gathering (1) ILO Convention 87 information matching (1) the convention infralapsarian immuno-contraceptive in my opinion / I think [NOT in my opinion I think] impatient at an action; impatient with a person Inner Mongolia imply; infer Inner Temple (Inn of Court) - speaker implies, listener infers Inn(s) of Court important essential = essential inquire; inquiry into [NOT enquire; enquiry] Imprest Supply Bill; imprest supply debate insider trading (1) in instamatic (type of camera) “in” (adj., if used in the sense of “in fashion”) Instant Kiwi (game) in aeternum insulfluff inasmuch; in so far insy-winsy in-box inter (prefix; usually one word) in fact (use sparingly) inter-agency infight (n.) intercontinental ballistic missile in perpetuity (2) intercorporate; intercorporate dividend exemption in service (2) intercountry in so far; inasmuch inter-Government in specie inter-island (adj.) in-store inter se in terrorem inter-State; interstate in work (2) intertrack income inter vivos February 2004

interest anecdotal quotations) interest bearing (1) ITO = individual transferable quota interest group IUD = intrauterine device interfere in an affair; interfere with a thing, animal, IVF = intravenous fluid or person IVF = in vitro fertilisation interjections by: IWI = inflation-weighted index Government Member: Hon Member: Opposition Member: Government Members: Hon Members: Opposition Members: intermediate-range ballistic missile international-standard machine-readable passport interpretation (re legislation) - In the bill “primary produce” includes any plant or animal intended for sale. - The bill states: “‘primary produce’ includes any plant or animal ... intended for sale:” interpretive [Interruption] - That is not what—[Interruption] Members do not like ... - That is not what the member said. [Interruption] into-store price intra (prefix) intradepartmental intragroup intranational intraspecific intra vires introduction; introductory introduction speech/debate (of a bill) introductory speech (first speech in a debate) inward inward bound (2) IOU(s) IPO = initial public offering IPU = Inter-Parliamentary Union IQ IR5; IR12 IRA = import risk analysis IRBM = intermediate-range ballistic missile Irian Jaya (aka Papua, aka West Papua; see Papua) Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag iris) iron Iron Curtain (of Soviet bloc); iron curtain of silence Iron Lady, the (Mrs Thatcher) iron ore ironsand ironic [NOT ironical] IRPM = individual resale price maintenance island; island(er) (Pacific) Cook Islander Island nation Island people Island State Islands, the (Pacific) Pacific Island(s) (n.); Pacific Islander(s) (n.); Pacific Island (adj.) South Pacific island(s) tropical island isooctyl alcohol IT = information technology it’ll = it will/shall (re interjections or informal or February 2004

Court of Appeal = Rt Hon. Justice Jones; Justice J Jones Jackie Howe(s) (sleeveless black singlet) District Court = Judge Brown Jack Ilott Green (Wellington) High Court = Hon. Justice Casey; Justice Casey jack up (3) His Honour; Her Honour Jacky, sitting up like judgment jail judicial bay line (re Māori Fisheries Bill) jail fever junior Jakarta [NOT Djakarta] John Kennedy Jnr “Jandal-man” (Sowry) jury room Janus JUSCANZ (Japan, US, Canada, Australia, New Janus-faced Zealand) Janus gate just (position in sentence determines meaning) Janus verreauxi (packhorse rock lobster) - I went to just the supermarket. (only the J class (business class) supermarket) Jebel Akhdar (Oman) - Just Alan went to the supermarket. (only Alan, and jeremiad (doleful complaint); Jeremiah (doleful no other person) prophet) - I went to the supermarket just yesterday. (as jerque note (customs officer’s note that vessel is recently as yesterday) empty) justice jet justice of the peace; Joanne Brown JP; JP jet airliner; jetliner visiting justice (re prisons) jet boat jet plane jet-propelled jet-strike (adj.) Jim “Jim’s Bank” (Kiwibank) “Jim’s jobs machine” job “Jim’s jobs machine” job creation scheme “jobs machine” (Ministry of Economic Development) job placement (adj.) job-ready (adj.) job rich (2) job-search (adj.) job seeker (n., adj.) job-sharing job vacancy survey joint joint custody (n., adj.) joint-venture (adj., v.) Jonathan apples Journals of the House of Representatives, enter in the; Journals of the House; Journals JP; Joanne Brown JP; justice of the peace jubilee golden jubilee; silver jubilee judge Associate Judge of the High Court; associate judge Chief Community Magistrate; community magistrate Chief District Court Judge; District Court judge Chief High Court Judge Chief Judge of the Employment Court Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court Chief Justice (Rt Hon.) High Court judge Judge Advocate; Judge Advocate General Judges’ Rules Mr Justice Heron = Justice Heron President of the Court of Appeal (Rt Hon.) Principal Environment Court Judge Principal Family Court Judge Principal Youth Court Judge titles of judges February 2004

K Kyrgyzstan kahawai Kanak (indigenous New Caledonian) Kansai (area of Japan including Osaka) karaoke (n., adj.) Karitane Karitane Home Karitane hospital Kawaroa Reef (Taranaki) Kazakhstan Kea (re Scouts) kerbside Kelson (suburb, Hutt City); Kelston (Auckland) kentia palm seed borer key to; keynote of Khargone () kiddy-pack (re cigarettes) kilogrey (re irradiation) kind, sort, type (watch for whether singular or plural) - that kind of thing - those kinds of things kindy; kindies king king hit King’s Cross the King (of New Zealand or the UK) “kiss” (“keep it simple, stupid”) kitchenhand; kitchenman Kitty Hawk (North Carolina; re Wright brothers) kiwi Instant Kiwi (game) kiwi (bird) Kiwi (n., New Zealander, member of national rugby league team) Kiwi (adj., characteristic of, or pertaining to, New Zealand or New Zealanders) - the great Kiwi clobbering machine Kiwibank (final name for ’s proposed new bank) “Kiwi Bank” (re Jim Anderton’s proposed new bank; became Kiwibank) “kiwi bear” (possum) Kiwi card Kiwidom kiwifruit Kiwi share Kiwi share holder KiwiSport (Hillary Commission programme) “Kiwi suspension” (procedurally incorrect suspension from school) “kiwi zone” Kleensak knock knock about (3) knock out (3) knowledgable; knowledgably knowledge wave (the concept, not either of the conferences) know-nothing (n., adj.) Kosovo (region) KLA = Kosovo Liberation Army Kosovar (adj., person) kriegsgefangene (prisoner of war) KSO = Kiwi share obligation kumite (re martial arts) February 2004

late-model (adj.) L late-night sitting lab = laboratory late-onset diabetes labour, Labour “la terzia via” (Italian; ) Australian Labor Party/Government; Labor latter (refers only to the second of two things); Labour caucus former (refers only to the first of two things) Labour electorate committee Latter-day Saints; Church of Jesus Christ of Labour Government Latter-day Saints labour inspector Lautoka (in Fiji) Labourite Labour left LAV = light armoured vehicle (when used labour market (n.); labour-market (adj.) descriptively) Labour member lava lava labour movement law labour-only (adj.) law and order is [NOT are] Labour Party budget law commissioner Labour Party president lawcourt Labour research unit law draftsman labour saving (1) lawmaker; lawmaking Labour weekend law of the sea leader of the Labour Party Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill ; Labour Party; Labour law related (2) previous Labour Government (most recent Labour lawnmowing Government) lay third Labour Government lay down misère (n., Australian; something that is a lactoferrin certainty) “lad-ess” lay, laid, have laid (to put, set, or place); lie, lay, Lady Luck have lain (to recline) lake lay people Great Lakes (Africa) lay preacher lake bed LCL = less than container-load lakefront LCL = less than carload lakeland LDC = less developed country Lake Ianthe lead up (3) lakeside leader Lake Vanda Acting Leader of the House lakeweed Deputy Leader of the House la-la land Labour leader Lamberts Gully leader of New Zealand First; Leader of New lamburger Zealand First (setting up in questions only) land leader of the Alliance land bank (n., re treaty claims) leader of the Alliance Opposition landbroker leader of the Government landfill (n., v.) Leader of the House land-grab leader of the National Opposition landing rights leader of the National Party (acceptable for Leader Land of the Long White Cloud of the Opposition) Land Rover leader of the NewLabour Party land settlement programme leader of the New Zealand First Opposition land transport disbursement account (more than Leader of the Opposition (leader of the non- one) Government party with the most MPs) land use (n.); land-use (adj.) leaders meeting (APEC) Land Wars (New Zealand) shadow Leader of the House Landrace pig leadlight lant (urine) leafy spurge (prohibited plant) Laos; Lao leak-proof lap and diagonal seat-belt Leander (class of frigate) lapsing provision(s) (re immigration) leaned [NOT leant] “large natural groupings” (re treaty settlements) learn LASH = lighter-alongside-ship (adj.) learning-disabled learnt (past and past participle) [NOT learned] last (acceptable in the sense of “previous”) lease-to-buy (adj.) last ditch (n.); last-ditch (adj.) last Labour Government least-cost (adj.) last mentioned (n.); last-mentioned (adj.) least developed country last minute (n.); last-minute (adj.) LEC = Labour electorate committee late lecture room 2 days late ledgerkeeper

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left (n., adj.) “lies, damned lies and statistics” (Disraeli) broad left lieutenant centre-left lieutenant-colonel(s) far left (n., predic.); far-left (attrib.) lieutenant-commander(s) flaky left lieutenant-general(s) Labour left life left-over (n.) “life for a life” (re National’s policy re murderers) left wing (n., predic.); left-wing (attrib.) life interest left-winger(s) lifesaving (n., adj.) loony left life-savings (n.); new-left (adj.) life skills (n.); life-skills (adj.) “trendy lefties” life’s work legal aid (n., adj.) light leggy (leg break, re cricket) light armoured vehicle leg-in (n.) light-handed (adj.) legislation lighter-alongside-ship delegated legislation lighthouse-keeper legislation (acceptable when referring to a bill) likable legislation making (1) like (in the sense of “for example”, “such as”); and Legislative Council (Upper House; defunct); the like Legislative Council Chamber lime works limited leg-rope limited-access LEI = land exclusive of improvements limited-liability company lemon sucker (n.); lemon-sucker (adj.) limited purpose visa/permit Le Quesnoy (French town; re World War I) limited-tenancy scheme less (use with singular noun, followed by singular verb); limited-time debate fewer (use with plural noun, followed by plural verb) Watercare Services Ltd; Gyles Printing Co. Ltd - Less ham was needed. Lincoln’s Inn (Inn of Court) - Fewer eggs were needed. BUT One less egg was line needed. electricity lines business; lines business - Less than $750; receiving $20 less than in 1990; line charge (n.); fixed line-charge (qualified n.) BUT seven fewer dollars “line in the sand” (adj.); line in the sand (phrasal n.) less line up (3) less developed country Ling (cattle breed) less fortunate (2) lipidologist less than carload liquefied less than container-load liquefied natural gas let liquefied petroleum gas let down (3) Liquica (East Timor) let out (3) liquidation surplus account let up (3) list letterbox list member lettuce aphid on the list leverage (n., v.) listener-in (n.) levy Listeria monocytogenes check-off levy little earners levy little bit levy in advance account little-known levy payer little-needed (adj.) levy setting (1) little orphan Annie liable parent (n.); liable-parent (adj.) little penguin (also blue penguin, little blue penguin, Liberal Democrat (UK) kororā) LIBOR = London interbank offer rate(s) little-used (adj.) licence (n.); license (v.) littlies delicensing livable driver licensing (1) live wire (n.); live-wire (adj.) driver’s licence (n.) [NOT driving licence]; drivers’ LLB licences (pl.); driver’s-licence (adj.) LLDC = landlocked developing country (may also licence holder refer to least developed country) licence owner LLDC = least developed country (in the context of licensing United Nations Conference on Trade and photograph licence; photo licence Development) Lidice (Czech village; site of German reprisals during LNG = liquefied natural gas (LNG)# World War II) loan sharking lie, lay, have lain (to recline); lay, laid, have laid (to loath (reluctant); loathe (detest) put, set, or place) February 2004

lobby (House) descriptively) Ayes lobby low lobby-fodder low and middle income (adj.) Noes lobby low-bred local government low-class (adj.) lock low cost (2) lockout (n., adj.); lock out (v.) low decile (2) lock up (3) low-income (adj.); low-income earner Lockerbie low life (n.); low-life (adj.) “Locky” (Lockwood Smith) low paid (n.), low-paid (adj.) “Locky the Finance” (Cullen’s name for Lockwood low-priced Smith) low-ranking “Locky’s law” (if one rolls over and plays dead, low-risk (adj.) everyone else will do it too) low-security (adj.) low-start (adj.) loco, locus low to middle income (adj.) loco citato low-tussock grassland locus delicti low-value (adj.) locus sigilli low-wage (adj.) lodgable; lodgment lower lollipop (adj., re certain alcoholic drinks) lower and middle income (adj.) lolly-scramble Lower Clutha long Lower House long accepted (2) lower-income (adj.) long ago (2) lower-middle and middle income earners long drawn out (2) lower middle-class long drop (toilet) lower-paid (adj.) longer term (n., predic.); longer-term (attrib.) lower to middle income (adj.) long held (2) LPG = liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)# longline (n., adj., re fishing) LSD (drug) long overdue (2) L-shaped Long Parliament long promised (2) LTD(s) (vehicle) long-service leave Lucas Heights (Sydney) long serving (2) “lump of labour” (re theory that there is a certain longstanding (adj.) BUT a member of long standing fixed amount of work to be done and it is in workers’ long-stay residential care interests not to do too much work, so that the long-tailed insurance (claims that are not settled for available work is shared among as many workers a long time) as long term (n., predic.); long-term (attrib.) possible) long-time (adj.) lump sum (n.); lump-sum (adj.) long title (of a bill; defunct from January 2000) lunch long-yielding (adj.) lunch adjournment look lunch break look at (v., acceptable in the sense of “examine”) lunchtime look out (3) Luxembourg; Luxemburg agreement loony loony left; loony right “loony tunes” (adj.) “loopies” Lord Howe Island (Australia) Lord Howe Rise Lord, the good loss loss carry-forward provision loss leading (2) lost lost and found column lost-time accident/injury lot, lots (may be used in the sense of “many” or “much”) lotto Lotto (official game); lotto (other) Lotto Strike Louisville Ridge (undersea mountain; orange roughy fishery) LOV = light operational vehicle (when used February 2004

dealing with assets) M mark M1, M2, M3 (measures of the amount of money in Mark II; Mark 9 (model or type of vehicle or public situation) machine) M15 (15 percent methanol blend added to petrol) mark down (3) M41 tank mark-to-market (adj., method of accounting) McCoy, the real mark up (3) Mace (of Parliament) market McGee (reference to Parliamentary Practice in New market-dominated Zealand) market-led machine-like (adj.) market rent(s) (n., adj.) “McJobs” market test (v.) Mack (type of truck) mark-to-market (adj., method of accounting) Mackenzie Country; the Mackenzie Marrakesh McLeans Island (Christchurch suburb) Marshall Islands McLean Park (Hamilton rugby ground) m-asma (cancer drug) madam; madame; mesdames “Mason money” (money for mental health services) “Mad Max” (Max Bradford) Master of the High Court; master (from May 2004 Associate Judge of the High Court; associate judge) Mafia (organisation); mafia (general description) mate’s rates Magistrate’s Court (now District Court) maths Magna Carta matronise “magnet” hospital (accredited under the “magnet” Matsutake (mushroom) system) magnetic resonance imaging scanner Māui’s dolphin “magnet school” (re special education) maximum (sing.); maxima (pl., mathematical); maximums (pl., general use) Maharey “Max tax” (immigration levy) a “Maharey” “Mahareyism” may/might, perhaps (use either “may/might” or “Maharey principle” (to say one thing in Opposition, “perhaps”) then another thing in Government) - He may/might tell me. “Maharey principle 2” (to say one thing when in - He will perhaps tell me. Government, then another thing when in maybe (adv., expressing doubt); may be (v.) Government) mayor “Maharey spin” mayoral forum maiden Mayor of Wellington; Mayor Fran Wilde; the mayor maiden speech; maiden (in Address in Reply District; the mayor debate) MBD = million barrels per day maiden statement (after Address in Reply debate) MCA = monetary compensation amount mail MCI = monetary conditions index mail order (n.); mail-order (adj.) MDA (parent drug of MDMA, or Ecstasy) mail out (3) MDD = mechanical dough development maimai(s) (shelter) MDEA (drug) main mea alofa fare Main Divide (Southern Alps) meadow main highway meadowfoam (oil-producing agricultural crop) Maine Anjou (cattle breed) meadow land mainland mean Mainland China “mean” machine (if referring to the “good news” Mainland, the () machine) Majesty, Her; Majesty, His mean-spirited Major means test (n., v.); means-test (adj.) Major General Johnston means-tested (adj.) make means testing (1) make believe (3) meat make do (3) meatmeal make up (3) meat processing (1) Maluku (part of Indonesia) meat-weight mal-use meatworkers man meatworks (n., sing.) man-day mechanical dough development man-hour medal-winner man-jack medical misadventure account managing insurer (re accident insurance) meddle in affairs; meddle with things Mandarin (language) medium, media Mansonil test media (pl., newspapers, magazines, etc.) Mareva injunction (restrains a defendant from media-ised February 2004

medium (sing.); mediums (pl., spiritualists); media meter (instrument); metre (length unit) (pl., general use) MetFax; MetPhone medium income (2) methanol-fuelled medium term (2) methcathinone (designer analogue of medium to long term (adj.) methamphetamine) Meek rules (re counting votes cast under a single methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (a transferable vote system) superbug bacterium in humans) meeting-place methyl mega methyl bromide (possible substitute for megacarrier chlorofluorocarbons) mega company, mega co-op, mega corporation (re methyl tertiary butyl ether proposed new dairy organisation) methyl tetra butyl ethylene megacorporation methylene dioxy-methyl amphetamine (Ecstasy) megafirm Metis (in Canada, a person of mixed race, including megafund American Indian) megagram megajoule “me too-ism” megalitre MetPhone; MetFax megamerger metre (length unit); meter (instrument) megapascal microfinance “me” generation Micronesia; Federated States of Micronesia member mid “mad dog” member mid-1980s member for “King Kong country” mid-air “member for Meridian” () mid-Canterbury “member for trout” mid-fifties member’s bill (formerly private member’s bill); mid-January members’ bills mid-length members’ day mid-point members’ notice of motion No. 1; members’ motion mid-season No. 1 (after motion moved) mid-term member(s) of Parliament mid to late (adj.) members’ order of the day; members’ orders of the Midtown (central Manhattan) day mid-Victorian Members Services Committee midweek MP; MPs mid-year my colleague the member for middle MP low and middle income (adj.) A Government Member: ) lower and middle income (adj.) An Hon Member: ) lower to middle income (adj.) An Opposition Member: ) re interjections low to middle income (adj.) Government Members: ) middle age (n.); middle-aged Hon Members: ) Middle Ages, the Opposition Members: ) middle class (n.); middle-class (adj.) memorandum of understanding Middle Earth meningococcal meningitis middle-income (adj.); middle-income earner men’s lib middle-management mental health care middle New Zealander middle of the road (2) mentioned Middle Temple (Inn of Court) above-mentioned aforementioned might/may, perhaps (use either “might/may” or before-mentioned “perhaps”) [NOT both] first-mentioned - He might/may tell me. hereinbefore-mentioned - He will perhaps tell me. last-mentioned Milancovitch cycles (explanation for 100,000-year undermentioned variations in Earth’s orbit) Mercer index (re cost of living) mile-a-minute (Dipogon lignosus) Merge-co (re new dairy organisation) military-style semi-automatic meritocrat militate against (to work against); mitigate (to make merry Christmas and a happy New Year, a less severe, violent, or painful) mesdames million 2,436,006; 42 million mess half a million; 2.5 million [NOT 2½ million] mess room mess up (3) militron machine Messiah (Jesus); messiah (saviour) milk metadata (machine-understandable data for the milkfat milk marketing (1) Internet) milk-powder; skim-milk powder; whole-milk powder February 2004

milk solids militate against (to work against) mill owner mixed minenwerfer (German grenade launcher) mixed-member proportional representation system mine owner mixed-oxide mini mix up (3) mini-Budget MMP minicomputer MMS = multi-member system (MMS)# mini-States M’Naghten Rules minimum (sing.); minima (pl., mathematical); mobile minimums (pl., general) mobile postbank minimum-wage order mobile-surgery bus Minister mochaccino Acting Minister (if officially acting); acting Minister modern-day (adj.) (unofficial) modified atmosphere container Associate Minister Moluccas, the (islands in Indonesia) Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary MON = motor octane number Education); Associate Minister of Education monarchy, British (acceptable in text) education Ministers [NOT Ministers of Education] “Mondayise”; “Mondayish” Finance Minister (of another country) [NOT monetary Treasury Minister] monetary compensatory amount Foreign Minister (of another country) monetary conditions index former Minister [NOT ex-Minister] monetise gatekeeping Minister money Health Ministers of Australia and New Zealand money-go-round “Minister for F2B2” (Minister for Food, Fibre, money-grab Biosecurity and Border Control) money-hungry (adj.) Minister Hobbs money-launderer ministerial money-laundering Minister in charge of the bill moneys Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi money-seller Negotiations “mongrel” (n., aggression) Minister in the chair (during estimates or reviews) monomooring buoy Minister of Finance; Minister monopoly of/on “Minister of Funny Money” monsieur; messieurs; M. Mitterand Minister of Health designate Monte Cassino (Italy) “Minister of Possums” (Jim Anderton) Montessorian (system of child education) minister of religion Minister outside Cabinet morale destroying (1) Minister responsible for the Serious Fraud Office more Minister without portfolio “more government” (adj.) my colleague the Minister of more important [NOT more importantly] prime ministerial “more market” (adj.) shadow Minister of Finance more than [NOT more so than] Ministerial Services morning/a.m. ministry - at 2 a.m. [NOT at 2 a.m. in the morning] Ministry of Transport; the ministry - at 2 o’clock in the morning superministry morning tea; morning-tea time minority mortgagor [NOT mortgager] (person who has minority Labour-Progressive Government borrowed the money) minority Labour Government mosquito fish (genus Gambusia) minus 5 percent motelier minute mother minute-book mother Earth minute by minute (2) mother Nature minute-hand “” mirex (persistent organic pollutant) Mother of (Westminster) mis (prefix; usually one word) motion mis-mother Government notice of motion No. 2; Government mischief rule (legal) motion No. 2 (after motion moved) missing person; missing-persons index members’ notice of motion No. 1; members’ motion No. 1 (after motion moved) missus motion, move a [NOT move a notice of motion] mistflower (Ageratina riparia) motion of confidence “mistruth” no-confidence motion mita (diction, speech) motor miticide (substance that kills mites) motorboat mitigate (to make less severe, violent, or painful); motorcar February 2004

motorcycle; motorcycle licence holder Murray-Darling motor vehicle account Murray-Darling Basin (Australia; area where the motorway Darling draws into the Murray) north-western motorway Murray-Darling river system southern motorway Mururoa (Pacific atoll) mount Muslim; Shi-ite Muslim Mount Albert; Mt Albert (constituency) musterer (Green Party ) Mount Buckley (re Dobson hydro scheme) muttonbird; muttonbirders Mount Davy MX nuclear missile Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) “My Bank” (a working name for Kiwibank) Mount St Helens (US) Mount, the (Mount Maunganui) myelin basic protein mountain myelogram (dye-tracked X-ray) mountain stream myostatin (re genetic engineering) mountain top myringotomy (insertion of grommet) mover and the seconder of the debate, the myself [NOT to be used instead of ‘I’ or “me” in moving vehicle offence compound noun phrases] MOX = mixed-oxide fuel - John and myself = John and I are voting together. MP mystagogue (initiator into religious mysteries) MP; MPs myth-making Trevor Mallard MP Mr Mr Big “Mr Clean” (re ) “Mr Fix-it” Mr Nice Guy MRI = magnetic resonance imaging MRI = mortgage-repayment insurance MRP = maximum retail price MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (superbug) MTBE = methyl tertiary butyl ether MTBE = methyl tetra butyl ethylene MTN = multilateral trade negotiations much much maligned (2) much, much much needed (2) much vaunted (2) muck up (3) mudhole Muldoon “Dr Muldoon” Muldoonism Muldoonist mulesing (re sheep) multi (usually one word) multibillion multi-employer multihandicapped multilateral trade negotiations multi-member system multimodal multi-ownership multi-party (n.); multiparty (adj.) multi-rate multi-risk multi-sector multi-storey; multi-storeyed multithousand multi-tier multi-unit multi-use (adj.) multi-year multiple-owned [NOT multiply-owned] Mulvay’s Corner mum and dad share February 2004

singular verb, but if one subject is plural and the N other is singular, the verb should be made plural Nadi [NOT Nandi] and the plural subject should be placed nearer to NAIRU = non-accelerating inflation rate of the verb) unemployment - Neither the member for Mana nor other MPs are “name and shame” correct. NAMP = national average market price “neither confirm nor deny” policy NAMV = national average market value Nelson-Marlborough dredge oyster nanny State Nematus oligospilus (sawfly) Nasdaq index (measures the value of many neo (prefix) technology stocks in the US) neo-conservative Nashi (Asian pear) neo-liberal nassella tussock net national, National net [NOT nett] ACT-Nat pact net national benefit National caucus net, the (Internet) “National First” Government neuro national interest (2) neurodevelopmental National Land Transport Fund (was National Roads neurotoxic shellfish poisoning Fund) Neuve Chapelle (site of World War I battle) National Mall (Washington DC) never (not ever; on no occasion; it is incorrect to use National - New Zealand First Government “never” when referring to one occasion; “never” can (thin spaces) be used only in relation to an event that happens National Opposition continually) National Opposition front bench - I never go to parties. national park; Mount Cook National Park - I did not drive the car to work this morning National Party conference because I never drive the car to work. National Party executive; executive of the Tauranga never before, never in the past [NOT never before branch of the National Party in National Party president the past] National Radio (was National Programme) never-ending National research unit never ever National Road Account (Transfund) never-failing National Roads Fund (now National Land Transport nevermore Fund) never-never land; Never Never Land (Northern Nats Queensland) New Zealand First - National Government (thin nevertheless; none the less spaces) new New Zealand National Party; National Party; new-age (adj.) National “new agenda” (adj., n.); New Agenda Coalition (of previous National Government (most recent countries re nuclear disarmament) National Government) “New Bank” (a proposed name for Kiwibank) navel gazing (1) new-blown navy newborn; newly born Navy (New Zealand) “newco” (flagged by Government as future State- navy personnel owned enterprise) “Nay”, cry “new deal” measure NB new-found NBC = nuclear, biological, and chemical (re New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) weapons of modern warfare and terrorism) “New Labour” (UK Labour Party) NewLabour Party (New Zealand) NCE = necrotising enterocolitis new left (n.); new-left (adj.) NCO new-look Labour Party near newly-wed (n., adj.) near new (2) “new National” (term coined by Bill English) “near nukes” (n.); new-right (adj.) near-unanimity New Year, a happy necrotising enterocolitis new year, in the nedge (type of sheep) New Year’s Day; New Year’s Eve needle NewLabour Party (New Zealand) needle blight (Dothistroma pini) leader of the NewLabour Party needle-sharing NewLabour Party budget needs news media have needs-assessment (n., adj.) New Zealand needs-based National - New Zealand First Government (thin Negro root (prohibited plant) spaces) neither (“neither” on its own takes a singular verb; New Zealand - Australia (adj., thin spaces) subjects linked by “neither ... nor” usually take a New Zealand - based (thin spaces) February 2004

“New Zealand disease” (child abuse) non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma New Zealand First members opposite non - kin-based (thin spaces) New Zealand First - National Government (thin non - means-tested benefit (thin spaces) spaces) non - party-political (adj., thin spaces) New Zealand First Opposition non-profitmaking New Zealand First Party non-quota species New Zealand First Party shadow Minister of non-residents exempt income Finance non-selfgoverning New Zealand First Party spokesperson non-specific output funding New Zealand First research unit non - tax deductible (thin spaces) New Zealand Herald at Arms Extraordinary none is, none are (a sentence using “none is” or “New Zealandhood” “none are” should be consistently either singular or “New Zealand Inc.”; “New Zealand Incorporated” plural) “New Zealandisation” none the less; nevertheless “New Zealandise” nonsense, a New Zealand - made (thin spaces) nor [NOT and nor] New Zealandness north New Zealand - owned (thin spaces) far north; Far North (electorate; defunct); member New Zealand resident (attrib.) for Far North next door (2) North Asia “Ngaire-no-mates” North Auckland NGO = non-governmental organisation North Canterbury night north-east by east night cart north face (of a mountain) night flying (1) North Head (Hokianga Harbour) night shift (n.); night-shift (adj.) North Island; Te Ika-a-Maui Ni hao (Chinese greeting) Northland, Northlander nitrofuran (antibiotic given to animals) Northland Basin NMR = nuclear magnetic resonance North Otago no North Shore (Auckland) “No” (actual word used); no (not actual word used) North-South dialogue - When asked to stand for Parliament I said “No”. North Westland (that is, my response was to say the word “No”) northern - When asked to stand for Parliament I said no. northern Europe (that Northern Hemisphere is, I answered in the negative, but my answer did Northern Māori (electorate; defunct) not consist of my saying just the word “No”) Northern Mariana Islands no-brainer (n.) Northern Territory (Australia) no-confidence motion Norwich Pharmicel order (court order) no-contest (n., adj.) NOS (DNA test) no good (2) not no ifs, no buts, no maybes BUT “no ifs, no buts, no not-for-profit (adj.) maybes” if referring to Bolger quotation not so young (2) no, it is not too distant future no-licence area Nothofagus menziesii (silver birch) “no new taxes—no ifs, no buts, no maybes” (Bolger notice quotation) Government notice of motion No. 2; Government no-take (adj.) motion No. 2 (after motion moved) Oh no!; Oh no, I ... members’ notice of motion No. 1; members’ motion vote “No”; “No” vote No. 1 (after motion moved) vote of no confidence move a notice of motion = move a motion Noddy-land - ... give notice of my intention to move ... [NOT Noes move notice of my intention to move ...] Noes, Ayes and Notice Paper, on the [NOT in the] Noes have it, the notional-roll school Noes lobby “noughties” (2000-09) non (prefix) NPV = net present value non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment NSP = neurotoxic shellfish poisoning non - arm’s length (thin spaces) nuclear non-association nuclear bomb testing non-coeducational nuclear-free non-cooperation nuclear-powered non-cooperative nuclear power-station non-earners account nuclear test (n., adj.) non - English-speaking (adj., thin spaces) nuclear test ban treaty non est nuclear testing (1) non-governmental organisation nuclear-tipped non-hero February 2004

nuclear waste dumping nuclear-weapon-free zone “nudge nudge, wink wink” Nui Dat (Vietnam) number a number are; the number is Education Amendment Bill (No 2) No. 1 priority No. 2 bill No. 26 [NOT NO. 26] Nos 2, 3, and 4 number eight fencing wire number portability; number porting numbers man (re getting numbers to oppose Bill English) Nuremburg; Nuremburg Principles nurse-aide nutgrass (Cyperus rotundus) nutraceutical nyet (Russian for “no”) NZSE40 (capital/gross index; measures New Zealand’s sharemarket)

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O Ogoni (a Nigerian people) oath oh Executive Councillor’s Oath Oh! Judicial Oath Oh dear! Oath/Declaration of Allegiance Oh no! Official Oath Oh, oh! Parliamentary Under-Secretary’s Oath Oh yes! OBERAC = operating balance excluding Oh yes, I know. revaluations and accounting changes oil occupational overuse syndrome oil bearing (1) OCR = (Reserve Bank) oil price rise OC spray = oleoresin capsicum spray oil producing (1) odd oil prospecting (1) 20-odd cents [NOT 20c-odd] OK Corral $40-odd; $42 million - odd (thin spaces) old ODP = ozone-depleting potential old boy (n.); old-boy (adj.); old boy network; old ODV = optimised deprival value boys’ club OE (overseas experience) old-established off old school (n.); old-school (adj.) off-balance-sheet (adj., accounting term) old style (2) off-beam oleoresin capsicum spray off course (2) olympic off duty (2) olympic pool off-moment Olympic team off-saving (adj.) ombudsman; Ombudsman offshore (attrib.); off shore (predic.) Banking Ombudsman; ombudsman offside Chief Ombudsman (statutory position within the off the cuff (2) Office of the Ombudsmen; of equal status to the off the record (2) Ombudsmen, but has administrative responsibility offer-back (adj.) for the office) office Insurance and Savings Ombudsman; ombudsman Bills Office Office of the Ombudsmen Cabinet Office Ombudsman (currently two; statutory positions Clerk’s Office within the Office of the Ombudsman; of equal Hansard Office status to the Chief Ombudsman); ombudsman House Office (all other cases) office holder Ombudsmen (use only when referring to the two Office of the Banking Ombudsman statutory positions of Ombudsman within the Office of the Clerk Office of the Ombudsmen); ombudsmen (all other Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner cases) Office of the Ombudsmen on Office of the Privacy Commissioner “on account” (re treaty legislation) Office of the Race Relations Conciliator on-again off-again (adj.) Office of the Retirement Commissioner on board (2) Office of the Wanganui Computer Centre Privacy on course (2) Commissioner (defunct July 1993) on-course off-course betting Parliamentary Counsel Office on-farm (adj.) Prime Minister’s office on-lend (v.); on-lending (n., adj.) Race Relations Office on-licence (held by a local authority) Select Committee Office on-ramp Speaker’s office on-sell (v.) Table Office onshore (attrib.); on shore (predic.) travel office on site (2) Office of Parliament (Audit Office; Office of the on stream (2) Ombudsmen; (Office of) the Parliamentary on the job (2) Commissioner for the Environment) on the spot (2) Officer of Parliament (Controller and Auditor- on to -General; Parliamentary Commissioner for the once Environment; Chief Ombudsman and the two once in a lifetime (2) Ombudsmen) once-over-lightly Officers of Parliament Committee once-proud (adj.) official Oncorhynchus mykiss (rainbow trout) official assignee one official cash rate - I am one of the 10 men who are [NOT is] here. officials committee - One of the 10 men who is [NOT are] here is ... oft; often from day one; from year one often renewed one all (score) February 2004

one-billionth opt-out (n., adj.) one-China policy orange roughy one-dayer (cricket) order one-eyed Government order(s) of the day one-hundred millionth members’ order of the day; members’ orders of the one-in-100-year drought day “one nation” (adj., alluding to Pauline Hanson’s One Order! (instruction from the Chair) Nation party) Order in Council one-on-one (adj.) order of, in/of the [NOT in/of the order of about] one-parent family Order of New Zealand one person, one vote principle order of the day for the Address in Reply one-size-fits-all (attrib.) order of the day No. 1; orders of the day Nos 1 one step removed (2) and 2 one-stop shop private and local order(s) of the day one-teacher school Order of Merit one-third of $1 million Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit; one-to-one (adj.) CNZM One4b (1,4 butanediol) Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of one’s (the only possessive pronoun written with an Merit; DNZM apostrophe; “yours”, “hers”, “theirs”, “its”, and “ours” Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order are written without an apostrophe) of Merit; GNZM only (position in sentence determines meaning) Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand - Only I hit him in the eye yesterday. (I alone) Order - I only hit him in the eye yesterday. (I did no more of Merit; DCNZM than to hit him) Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of - I hit only him in the eye today. (him, no other) Merit; KNZM - I hit him only in the eye today. (just in the eye) Knight Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order - I hit him in the eye only today. (as recently as of Merit; GNZM yesterday) Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit; MNZM - I hit him in the eye today only. (yesterday, no other Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit; ONZM day) Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of OOS = occupational overuse syndrome Merit; PCNZM open Order Paper open air (2) Order Paper, on the [NOT in the] opencast (re mine) S.O.P. 20 (heading) open-coast (adj.) Supplementary Order Paper “open for instruction” (adj., regulations re schools) Supplementary Order Paper 21 open government (process, system); open ordinary time (2) Government (ruling body, NZ or overseas) oreo dory open skies (adj.) organics (n., re type of food production) open-source (adj., re software) organo “open the books” policy organochlorine [NOT organochloride] operating balance excluding revaluations and organophosphate accounting changes Orgyia thyellina (white spotted tussock moth) opere citato orithochloroperzo-mellonoatryl (CS spray) opossum (US, Trichosurus vulpecula); possum out (Australia and New Zealand) out (n.) opposite-sex (attrib.) out clause Opposition outcross (v.); outcrossing (n.) Alliance Opposition outdoor (adj.); outdoors (n., adv.); out-of-doors call themselves an Opposition out-of-control (attrib.) Her Majesty’s loyal Opposition out of court (2) Labour Opposition out of date (2) Leader of the Opposition (leader of the non- out of pocket (2) Government party with the most MPs) out-of-the-way (attrib.) New Zealand First Opposition out of the window (movement); outside the window Opposition (1. the non-Government party with the (location) most MPs; 2. all non-Government MPs) out-serve Opposition front bench; National Opposition front out-vote (v.) bench out-year Opposition is output (estimates) Opposition spokesperson on finance (or spokesman output class D6, which refers to (in debate) or spokeswoman) output D6 (in motion) when in Opposition outside the window (location); out of the window op-shop (movement) optimisation extraction and separation “outski” technology (re milk) outward optimised deprival basis February 2004

outward bound (2) outward looking (1) over (acceptable in the sense of “more than”) over-60s, over-twos (referring to age of people) over-65-year-olds (n.); people over 65 overcatch; overcatching overcomplicate overcut (n., v.) overexpenditure overfish; overfishing overfund (v.) over-indebted over-invest (v.); over-investment (n.) overlegislate overorder overprescriptive over quota (2) over-recovery over-regulate overrepresented over-right (n., re tribal fishing right) overseas parenting order over the counter (2) over-the-horizon radar over-the-top (attrib.) owner owner-builder owner-driver owner-operator Oxford down (sheep breed) oyster dredging (1) ozone depleting (1)

February 2004

Kauhanganui (Maori Parliament) P parliamentarian P (a pure form of crystal methamphetamine) Parliamentary Bulletin P (endorsement of driver’s licence) Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Pacific parliamentary coordinator (former term for Alliance Asia-Pacific (adj.) whip) Islands, the (Pacific) parliamentary counsel Pacific Basin Parliamentary Counsel Office Pacific Island(s) (n.); Pacific Islander(s) (n.); Pacific parliamentary Labour Party Island (adj.) Parliamentary Library Pacific rim (n.); Pacific-rim (adj.) “Parliamentary Palace” (proposed new building) Pacific Seastar starfish Parliamentary Paper B.5 Pasifika Parliamentary Practice; Parliamentary Practice in South Pacific island(s) (n.); South Pacific Islander(s) New Zealand (n.); South Pacific Island (adj.) parliamentary private secretary packhorse rock lobster (Janus verreauxi) Parliamentary Service packing-house; packing-shed Parliamentary Service Commission page Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of page 3 Commerce; Parliamentary Under-Secretary page 2026 Parliament Buildings paid up (2) Parliament grounds Parliament House (contains debating chamber) paint Parliament (New Zealand) paint job parliaments paintpot Parliament Week painted apple moth (pest, from Australia) twelfth Parliament “paintergate” Youth Parliament; New Zealand Youth Parliament pair Parramatta (New South Wales) pair that/who are (when referring to people); pairs part (more than one pair) in Part 2 of the bill pair-trawler; pair-trawling new subpart added pakapoo (Chinese lottery) Part 4, “Geographical indications”, Palace, the (the Queen’s officials) Part 4/IV (of a bill; drafting style changed 1997; use Palagi (Samoan word meaning Pākehā) style in legislation) pale ghost shark Part A, Part B (ship register) Pall Mall (street); pell-mell (headlong) Part B of schedule 1 Palmyra Atoll (Pacific Ocean) part by part (adj.) pan (prefix) part charge; hospital part-charge; user part-charge; pan-Māori part-charges regime pan-Pacific part-charging panel beating (1) part-income part-owner paper part-pension (n.) paper bag part programme II (estimates) paper-shuffling part time (n.); part-time (adj., adv.) Papua (aka Irian Jaya; aka West Papua; change part-time work-tested (attrib.); part-time work tested of name from Irian Jaya to Papua approved by (predic.) Indonesian President, but not ratified by Parliament) part with a thing; part from a person Papua New Guinea Foreign Minister Subpart J, “Tax credit system”, (style changed para January 2000; use style in legislation) para-athlete(s) that part of the bill paralympians particular, in (use sparingly) Paralympics, the; Paralympic Games parties, political (registered parties and their paraprofessional components; for further information on these and paratransit (transportation for paraplegics) other parties, see individual entries in the Reference parallel between (draw a parallel between two List) events); parallel to (side by side) ACT New Zealand; ACT party; ACT parallel imported (2) Alliance, the (includes NewLabour) paralytic shellfish poisoning Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party parens patriae (Crown’s ancient prerogative Christian Heritage New Zealand; Christian Heritage jurisdiction) NZ parental tax credit ; Destiny NZ park-and-ride Future New Zealand; Future NZ parliament; Parliament; parliamentary Greens, the Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand Chief Parliamentary Counsel (thin spaces); Green Party; Greens; Green European Parliament Independent (not name of party but of member who fortieth Parliament stands alone) General Manager of the Parliamentary Service Progressive Party, Progressives (from 15 April 2004; was Jim Anderton’s Progressive Coalition) February 2004

Liberal Party (proposed name for ACT party) peace making “peacenik” Mana Māori Motuhake (from 14 February 2003; was peace studies o Aotearoa) peak hour (n.); peak-hour (adj.) Mana Māori Movement; Mana Māori PECT = permanent employee ceiling target NewLabour Party; NewLabour peeler log New Zealand Democratic Party Inc.; Democrats peer group (n.); peer-group (adj.) New Zealand First Party; New Zealand First; NZ Pekinese dog First New Zealand Labour Party; Labour Party; Labour pell-mell (headlong); Pall Mall (street) New Zealand National Party; National Party; pemoline (drug) National pentachlorophenol One ; OneNZ Party Pentium (re computers) Outdoor Recreation NZ pent up (2) People’s Republic of Aotearoa / New Zealand (thin people spaces); People’s Republic people-orientated Quality of Life (QUOL) Political Movement “People’s Bank” (re Jim Anderton’s proposed new bank; became Kiwibank) New Zealand (includes United New people-smuggling; people-smuggler Zealand Party and Future New Zealand); United “people’s Treasurer”, the () Future people-trafficking United New Zealand Party; United NZ pepper-pot (v., to combine low-income and high- party income housing) non - party-political (adj., thin spaces) per party hopping (1); party-hopper per annum; per year party political (adj.) per curiam self-centred party; self-centre party per interim Paryphanta (kauri snails; genus formerly included percent Powelliphanta snails) 52-plus percent [NOT 52+ percent] Paryphanta busbyi (native kauri land snail) fewer than 5 percent are Pasifika less than 5 percent is Passchendaele plus 2 percent [NOT +2 percent] percentage-wise passenger-kilometre “perf” (v., re police employment rehabilitation fund) passenger transport industry perhaps, may/might (use either “perhaps” or pass on (v.) “may/might”) [NOT both] past - He may/might tell me. past (redundant when used with “history”, - He will perhaps tell me. “experience”, “records”, and “precedent”) Perigord truffle past-president; past President (of a country) period pasteurise period 3 (division of school day) pasture land period of Patagonian toothfish perk patch up (3); patched-up (adj.) perk-buster pat-down (n., adj.) perks patient-advocate permanent pattern 1, 2, 3 (re firefighters’ salaries) permanent employee ceiling target patter tennis permanent residence; permanent resident status permethrin (insecticide) pay “pay as you go” (adj.) perna mussel payback (n., adj.); pay back (v.) “” pay credit = give credit Persian Gulf; the Gulf pay fixing (1) persistent organic pollutant “pay-go” scheme; “pay as you go” scheme personal grievance procedure (description of current superannuation scheme) person-day “pay if paid”; “pay when paid” pest management (adj.) pay off (3) PET = position emission tomography payout (n.); pay out (v.) petajoule pay period (n.); pay-period (adj.) “Peters clause” (re Electoral Amendment Bill (No 2), pay rise to ban publication of poll results in the 28 days PAYE before an election) PC (personal computer) petrol PCB = polychlorinated biphenyl 95 premium petrol PCO = Parliamentary Counsel Office leaded 96 petrol PCP = pentachlorophenol petrolhead peace petrol-pump (adj.) peace loving (1) premium grade unleaded petrol February 2004

unleaded 96 octane petrol pluses unleaded 96 petrol pluty petroleum mining (1) PM10s (particulate matter of less than 10 microns Phalangeridae (marsupial family) diameter; re atmospheric pollution) phase, phasing p.m./afternoon phase down (3) - at 2 p.m. [NOT 2 p.m. in the afternoon] phasing in (n., adj.); phase in (3) - at 2 o’clock in the afternoon phasing out (n., adj.); phase out (3) “pobocs” = payments on behalf of the Crown phenothiazines (“pobocs”)# phenoxy (herbicide) pocket PHO = primary health organisation pocket gopher phone (n., v.) pocket-handkerchief phosphonate podocarp (tree with cones not flowers) phosphorus (n.); phosphorous (adj.) Poincaré gold franc (outdated currency unit) photograph licence; photo licence point-score (v.); point-scoring Phuoc-Tuy Province (Vietnam) poker machine (n., gaming machine); poker- phyto (prefix) machine (adj.) phytoremediation pokie machine (n., gaming-machine); pokie- phytosanitary machine (adj.); pokie Piccadilly Circus Police, New Zealand (if referring specifically to the picket-line department, sing.); police (other references, pl.) pie assistant commissioner of police; Assistant Police pie-cart Commissioner Bloggs pie in the sky (2) Commissioner of Police; Police Commissioner Smith; commissioner piece of legislation (“piece of” is usually redundant) Deputy Commissioner of Police; Deputy Police Pierce’s disease (of grapevines and fruit trees, Commissioner Jones; deputy commissioner caused by Xyella fastidiosa) police-community liaison office Pie Rouge (cattle breed) police constable pig police district; Counties-Manukau Police District pig feed police dog handler Pig Island police estimates Pig Islander police, every member of the pigkeeper police force(s) pig meat policeman; policewoman; policeperson pigovian (tax) Police National Headquarters Pimafucort inhaler (re asthma) police officer Pine pitch canker (re radiata pine) police service “pinks” (Hansard) police spokesman, a Pinot Noir police State pin up (3) police station; Police Station Police vote; Vote Police Pinus Royal College Pinus caribaea Pinus contorta policy Pinus ponderosa policyholder Pinus radiata policy maker policy making (1) pipfruit politicise; politicisation pipi (surf clam; Pelebidonax deltoides) “polluter pays” principle pissant (n., adj., insignificant, worthless) “Pollyanna” (n., adj.) Pitcairn Island poly-drug plain-language (attrib.) polyphosphoric ester acid anhydrate (etching acid) planeload polytech; polytechnic; Wellington Polytechnic plateau(s) pom; pommie playcentre poncy play dough “poor card” PlayStation poorman’s orange; poorman playway (system of education) POP = persistent organic pollutant Plebidonax deltoides (pipi; surf clam) pop-alcohol plum stone; plum tree population-based Plunket nurse porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome plus (equivalent to “with the addition of”) (virus; also known as “blue ear” disease) - The votes cast on Saturday night plus special votes will determine the composition of pornography Parliament. hard porn $100 million - plus (thin spaces) porn plus 2 percent [NOT +2 percent]; 52-plus percent “porn war” February 2004

soft porn pre-Christian port (harbour) precondition Port Arthur (massacre site, Tasmania) preconsult port-a-loo pre-funding portfolio pre-natal defence portfolio pre-negotiation Māori affairs portfolio pre-operative POSA = post-settlement assets (re Māori Fisheries preamble (to a/the bill; if present, gives reasons for Bill) legislative provisions proposed in the bill) position precipitous (extremely steep); precipitate (rash or position emission tomography hasty action) position in which / where precluded from possie predator prey-switching possum (Australia and New Zealand); opossum prefer(red); proffer(ed) (US) prejudice against post (prefix) Premier (of a country or State); premier (first in post-1981 importance); premiere (first performance) post factum (after the deed) PRESA = pre-settlement assets (re Māori Fisheries post hoc Bill) post meridiem present, presently post bank present, current (put what member said if necessary ANZ PostBank to include) post bank (general reference; not a reference to a presently (soon); currently (now) PostBank outlet) president PostBank, Post Office Bank Ltd (organisation; from past-president; past-President (of a country) 1987; bought by ANZ 1989); postbank; PostBank President (of a country) Durham House (outlet) president (organisation, ); Labour Post Office Savings Bank (until 1987) Party post office president New Zealand Post (from 1987); postshop (outlet); president-elect; President-elect (of a country) Te Aro Postshop President of the Court of Appeal New Zealand Post Office (until 1987); post office press gallery (general reference) prevent from Post Office Account (defunct) preventive [NOT preventative] Post Office Savings Bank (until 1987) previous, the (immediately preceding); former, a postshop manager (past) pot previous Labour/National Government (the most potline recent Labour/National Government) potplant price potato price-effectiveness potato cyst nematode price fixing (1) potato processing (1) price freeze poultry price gouge (v.) poultry farming (1) price gouging (1) poultrykeeper; poultryman price-pusher poundkeeper price-stepping pour-on (n., re treatment for cattle etc) primary poverty weed (prohibited plant) primary care (n.); primary-care (adj.) Powelliphanta (land snail) primary income earner power primary school (adj.) great powers (countries) primary school teaching; schoolteaching power-happy prime bank instrument (a scam; supposedly secret, power planning (1) high-yielding Government bond) power pricing (1) Prime Minister power station; Clyde power station Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Powerball (re Lotto) Prime Minister designate PPI = primary producers index Prime Minister elect PPP = public-private partnership prime ministerial PR = public relations Prime Minister in waiting Prime Minister’s department PR; PR4; PR unit (re teaching; position of prime ministership responsibility) Prime Minister’s office practice (n.); practise (v.); put into practice Prime Minister’s statement practice note (of a court; not a judgment) Prime Minister to be Prantal (powder re amputees) primer 1 praziquantel (drug for control of hydatids) prime time (n.); prime-time (adj.) pre (prefix) principal (main); principle (idea) February 2004

principal proteomics (re molecular biology) Principal Disputes Referee protester Principal Environment Court Judge proved, proven (put what member says) Principal Family Court Judge provide against future disasters; provide for one’s principal income-earner rebate family Principal Youth Court Judge province print Nelson province printing-ink the province of Nelson printout (n.); print out (v.) PRP = political risk premium print-ready copy PRRS = porcine reproductive and respiratory prior to (acceptable in the sense of “before”) syndrome prison receiving-office prudent person requirement Privacy Commissioner p’s and q’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner PSA = prostatic-specific antigen Office of the Wanganui Computer Centre Privacy Commissioner (defunct July 1993) pseudo (prefix; hyphenate if not one word in COD) Privacy Commissioner pseudoephedrine Wanganui Computer Centre Privacy Commissioner pseudo-socialist (defunct July 1993) PSP = paralytic shellfish poisoning private psycho (prefix) private (soldier); Private Wilkins psychogeriatric private bill psychogremophilia private hotel keeper psychopaedic private line Pty Ltd private member’s bill; private members’ bills (now pua-hoku (star of Bethlehem; Hippobroma longiflora) member’s bill, members’ bills) public private mineral owner Public Account (defunct) private sector (n., adj.) public foreshore and seabed register (re foreshore privatise; privatisation and seabed) Privileges Committee public-good (adj.); public good (n.); Public Good Privy Council Science Fund Chief Justice ) publicity seeking (1) Deputy Prime Minister ) public-private partnership former Deputy Prime Minister ) public sector (n., adj.) former Prime Minister ) May be public service (n., adj.) Judges of the Court of Appeal ) Rt Hon. public-spirited President of the Court of Appeal ) Public Trustee’s Account (defunct) Prime Minister ) the public is/are; the public are of two minds on this Privy Counsellor; Privy Counsellors ) matter prize giving public accounts pro (prefix) consolidated account [NOT fund] pro-environment Crown Settlement Account pro-nuclear Loans Account ) Loans Redemption Account ) producer price index Post Office Account ) proffer(ed); prefer(red) Public Account ) profit Public Trustee’s Account ) defunct profit à prendre Reserve Account ) profit driven (2) Sale of Endowment Land Account ) profit making (1) State Insurance Account ) profit-orientated Suspense Account ) profit sharing (1) Trust Account ) profit-taker publici juris program (computer); programme (other); puffed tobacco (expanded tobacco) programmer; programming Pulmocort (drug re chest infection) programmable data terminal programme VI, part programme VI (estimates) pulp pulp-log progressivity pulp mill prohibit from pulpwood; wood pulp “prole” pulpy kidney (disease of sheep and goats) prone pumice allergy prone (2) pumice flats proof of age (adj.) pumice land property pumice sand property developing (1) pumice soil property owner; property owning (1) pumice-stone prospectivity pump-house prostatectomy purchase money security February 2004

purse-net put put and call option “put and sell” option put into practice put option Puysegur fishing-ground PV = preferential voting (PV)# Pymble (New South Wales)

February 2004

Q Q3 scale (re teaching staff) Qatar (Persian Gulf) QC; Queen’s Counsel John Brown QC the Queen’s Counsel said [NOT the QC said] two Queen’s Counsel said Q share (dairying; return from quota rents) qualifying foreign equity investor quality wine (n.); quality-wine (adj.); quality wine producing country quantum meruit quarter forequarter June quarter (financial quarter ended June) quarter acre three-quarter (adj.), three-quarters (n.) BUT No points were scored in the first three quarters, and 20 points in the last quarter. quartz quartz mine quartz schist quartz vein quasi (prefix) quasi-religious quasi-scholar Queen (of New Zealand) Her Majesty; Her Majesty the Queen Queen and her family, the Queen Consort Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand (now Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa) Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Queen Mother, the Queen’s Birthday (statutory holiday) Queen’s Chain Queen’s Counsel (see also QC; Queen’s Counsel) Queen’s Service Medal; Queen’s Service Order Queen, the Queen City (Auckland) question oral question(s) question, $64,000 question for written answer No. 10820, lodged on 9 April 1992, [NOT due for answer on] question of the day No. 1; question No. 6 question on notice No. 5 (defunct); question on notice No. 8 on 12 October 1995 (defunct) question(s) for oral answer questions Nos 4, 5, and 6 question supplement question time in the House written question(s) quick quick fix (n.); quick-fix (adj.) “quickie” quinnat salmon quit-smoking (attrib.) quota non-quota species quota holder quota management system quota species quot homini, tot sententiae

February 2004

rehearing R re-inform R18 (film classification) reinsurance rabbit re-lay (v., to lay a charge again); relay (v., to relay rabbit haemorrhagic disease the lino; to communicate) rabbit-hole release; re-lease rabbit meat relicense race re-notify race card (re racial matters) re-publish race day re-put race-riot re-ratify racket (noise); racquet (tennis, badminton) rerecognise; rerecognition radiata pine reregulate radical conservative (n., adj., re National Party resign; re-sign 2000) resort; re-sort radicalisation re-stipulate re-table radio re-ticket radiocommunication retitle radioland re-unionise radionavigation re-vest Radumeris tasmaniensis (scoliid wasp; also known read as the yellow flower wasp) “Read my lips: no new taxes—no ifs, no buts, no rail maybes.” rail fare read-out (n.); read out (v.) rail ferry (n.); rail-ferry (adj.) reading rail freight reading debate, second/third rail-track reading recovery (n.); reading-recovery (adj.) rapid-rail (adj.) ready-reaction (adj.) railway ready-to-drink (2), (n.) New Zealand Rail Ltd (operator) New Zealand Railways Corporation (selling Reaganomics non-core assets) reason railway line reason is / because [NOT reason is because] railwayman receiving insurer (re accident insurance) railway station; Eltham Railway Station recess (period between the dissolution or prorogation rake off (3) of one Parliament and the opening of another) Ramsar site (re wetlands) recognised customary activity (re foreshore and ranch-slider seabed) R and D = research and development recombinant bovine growth hormone (growth random checking (n.); random-checking (adj.) hormone for beef) rank and file (2) reconcile to a condition or situation; reconcile with ran-tan a person rapid-rail (adj.) record-keeping; record keeper rark-up (n.) record of the House, on the rat recreationist; recreationalist rat-free red rat-hole red-baiting rate 1 (etc., re funding of early childhood education “red fed” providers) red fire ant Red Flag (flag); Red Flag (song) rates Red Guard (China) rates assessment red lane (n., adj.; re customs) rates demand “red reverend” ratio reds under the bed ratio of 1:35 redundancy (payment; loss of job) teacher-pupil ratio of 1:35 reef fish teacher to pupil ratio of 1:800 ten to one (general reference or round number) referendum rauwolfia (tree) referendum; referenda referendum poll (re superannuation referendum) razoo refugee asylum-seeker; asylum seeker re (prefix; usually one word except before “e” or to regard to, with avoid ambiguity) react; re-act registrar re-brand Chief Registrar of Electors; registrar(s) of electors; re-channel registrar recover; re-cover Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; re-erect registrar-general reform; re-form Registrar of Companies; registrar February 2004

Registrar of Incorporated Societies; registrar Reye’s syndrome (effect of aspirin on small children) registrar of the Court of Appeal RFR = right of first refusal regular RHD = rabbit haemorrhagic disease (formerly Regular Force; regular forces known as rabbit calicivirus disease) regular services right (n., adj.) regular soldiers all right (2) [NOT alright] regulations broad right regulation 18(2) of the Hospitals Regulations; centre-right subclause (2) of regulation 18 far right (n., predic.); far-right (attrib.) Tariff (Concessions) Amendment Order 1996 (date loony right needed if more than one) new right (n.); new-right (adj.) rehab right of first refusal reign of terror, a; Reign of Terror (French right-of-way (adj.); right of way (n.) Revolution) rights and prerogative of the Crown relief teacher (n.); relief-teacher (adj.) right(s)-holder; customary rights holder(s) rellie(s) right-to-buy (adj.) remainderman right wing (n., predic.); right-wing (attrib.) Remarkables, the right-winger(s) “Remmers” (Remuera) right honourable, Rt Hon (title of Privy Counsellor) remote right honourable gentleman remote (n., for television, video, etc.) right honourable lady remote interactive gambling right honourable member Rt Hon; Rt Hon Sir renewable (n., energy from a renewable source) the Rt Hon ; the right honourable rent-to-own (adj.) Prime Minister replace by a person; replace with a thing the Rt Hon Sir said Replies Supplement ring report back (debate on the consideration of the ring-fenced (adj.) report) ring-necked snake (North American; several report back (n., v.); report-backs (n., pl.); varieties) report-back (adj.); reported-back (adj.) rip off (3) reporting back (n., v.); reporting-back (adj.) risk reprinted statutes; Reprinted Statutes of New risk-averse Zealand risk aversion requiring authority (re Resource Management Act) risk management (adj., n.) rere (type of lucerne) risk sharing (n.); risk sharing (2) res adjudicata risk taker research risperidone (drug re mental illness) Alliance research unit river Labour research unit river bank National research unit riverbed New Zealand First research unit river-mouth research into [NOT research on/in] road research octane number Road Code resentment against a person; resentment at a roadmaker wrong roadmaking Reserve 30 (re Ngāi Tahu legislation) road racer reserved provisions (re Māori land) roadside reserve land (land subject to the Reserves Act) road to Damascus (adj.) res gestae road transport industry residual claims account (re accident compensation) road-user charge res ipsa loquitur Robben Island (Cape Town) resolution “robocs” = receipts on behalf of the Crown Security Council Resolution 418; Resolution 418 (“robocs”)# resource-use plan rock rock lobster respect rock-solid (adj.) in respect of, in relation to, with regard to (“about” or “referring to”) Rogernome; with respect to (precedes an expression of rolled, to be (v., to be overturned) disagreement) Rolls-Royce (n.); “Rolls-Royce” (adj., high quality, restaurant keeper expensive) retiree Romagnola (cattle breed) revenue sharing (1) Romania reverend, Rev. RON = research octane number Rev. Charles Waldegrave; the reverend Rongelap (Marshall Islands) Rt Rev. Duncan Gladstone rooftop revert [NOT revert back] room-divider February 2004

root rootbound root crop root rot root system Ross River virus round (circular motion); around (throughout, here and there, about) about 40 bills around about = about around his electorate around the world a trend is starting round-table (adj.) round the world in 80 days sitting around doing nothing what goes around comes around Routeburn Track royal Her Royal Highness; His Royal Highness royal family royal prerogative royal tour RPS = redeemable preference share RSI = repetitive strain injury (RSI)# RTD = ready to drink (2), (n.) Rt Hon (see also right honourable, Rt Hon) RTLB = resource teacher(s) of learning and behaviour RU486 (abortion pill) rubbish bin rub-down search (of prisoners) RUC = road-user charge rugby football New Zealand Rugby Football Union rugby league rugby union Rugby World Cup rule rule 97A rule 242 rule of law (n.); rule-of-law (adj.) Rules Committee rules of origin ruling-out (n.); rule out (v.) rumourmonger run “do a runner” run-around (n.); run around (v.) run down (v., predic.); run-down (attrib.); rundown (n.) “run for fun” runholder runoff (n.); run off (v.) run of the mill (2) run-up (n.); run up (v.) rural mail contract rusa (deer) Russia Russian Federation Russian knapweed “” (re Ruth Richardson)

February 2004

amendments; schedule (supplied by House S Office) saddleback school safe school age (n., predic.); school-age (adj.) safe food (attrib.) old school (n.); old-school (adj.) “safe harbour” provision primary school teaching; schoolteaching safety school-bag safety net (n.); safety-net (adj.) school-based safety-pin school bus saint, Saint schoolchild(ren); primary school child(ren) she is a saint school-grounds St Albans schoolteacher; primary school teacher St Heliers Bay schoolyard St John secondary school teaching; schoolteaching St Lague electoral system scoliid wasp (Radumeris tasmaniensis; also known sake as the yellow flower wasp) for conscience’ sake scope for goodness’ sake scope(s) of practice (re Medicines Amendment Bill) for heaven’s sake scoping report salary earner; income and salary earner score sale 12 score; seven score sale day a score of one all saleyard scoreboard Salmo (genus of fish) the scores were 6-5 and 6-0 saltmarsh mosquito; southern saltmarsh Scout, a; boy scout mosquito scrap-iron saltwater “scratchie” salvo(es) (firing of guns); salvo(s) (reservation, Scratch Kiwi excuse) screw-up (n.) sambur (deer) scrub same-sex (adj.) scrub-cutter; scrub-cutting Sami (a Nordic people) scrub land sanatorium (sing.); sanatoria (pl.) SDR = special drawing rights sandspit sea San Leon (Galveston, Texas) sea cage (n.); sea-cage (adj.) Sars = severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars)# sea farm satellite transponder space sea-fishing seafloor satsriakal (a Punjabi greeting) sealift (lifting device used on ships); heavy sealift sav, fair suck of the (adj.) “save as you go” scheme (re compulsory saving for sea-mine superannuation) sea-run salmon saving clause sea-water savoir-vivre seat of one’s pants (2) saw second, secondary sawlog; sawlogger second XI sawmiller secondary-care (adj.) say, state (COD “state” = express definitely or clearly secondary school (n., adj.) in speech or writing) second-biggest “say no” (adj.) second-chance - the document states: [NOT says:] “This option is” second-guessing - this document says nothing about it second-hand car; secondhand-car dealer; - the Prime Minister stated/said very clearly ... second hand (of a clock) sayonara (Japanese word for goodbye) second reading; second reading debate scabby mouth (virus; contagious dermatitis) second rower (re rugby) scamster(s) second to last scaremonger; scaremongering second-year (adj.) scare tactics secretary schedule (bill or Act) Secretary-General (United Nations); secretary- clause 1 (bill or Act) general (National Party) first schedule / schedule 1 (drafting style changed Secretary of Defense (US) 1997; use style used in legislation) Secretary of State (UK, several) Part B Secretary of State (US) schedule 1A Secretary of the Cabinet schedule of a bill/Act secretary-treasurer schedule (in Committee stage) section officials schedule; schedule of proposed section 87(1)(a)(i) (of an Act) February 2004

section 27B memorial (to land titles, re Treaty of set-net(ting) Waitangi claims) set-off (n.); set off (v.) security risk certificate set piece (n.); set-piece (adj.) see (acceptable in the sense of “understand” or set up (3) “perceive”) setting down fee (re courts) - I see that there was [NOT where they had] another setting up (n.); setting-up (attrib.) flood in the south. settling down (2) seed seven electronic “seeds” 7-days-a-week (adj.) seed funding (1) (initial funding); seed fund (v.) “seven sisters” (oil companies) seed testing (1) sevens rugby Seido karate seventh freedom (re agreed and scheduled series seine-net of flights between countries other than the seldom; seldom, if ever, [NOT seldom ever] designated country of the airline) “select and slaughter” (re home-kill) severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars)# select committee sewage (waste); sewerage (system) at a select committee / committee meeting “sewage channel” (Prime Minister’s office) Health Committee [NOT Health Select Committee] SF6 = sulphur hexafluoride hearing (oral submissions); consideration; SFH = stroma-free haemoglobin deliberation (motion) [NOT select committee stage shadow or debate] Alliance shadow Cabinet in a select committee / committee New Zealand First Party shadow Minister of on a select committee / committee Defence Select Committee Office shadow Leader of the House self (prefix) shadow Minister of Health self-conscious; unselfconscious shagpile (n., adj.) self-determination; anti-selfdetermination Shaibah (Iraq) self-employed work account (re accident shake up (3) compensation) share self-extinguish (v.) sharebroker; sharebroking self-fund (v.) share capital self-governing; non-selfgoverning shared parenting (n., adj.) sell share-fisherman sell down (3) shareholder-employee sell off (3) share index sell out (3) share-list semi (prefix) sharemarket semi-nephrite (type of greenstone) sharemilker; sharemilking semi-submersible share out (3) semitransparent sharp end (n.); sharp-end (adj.) semitropical Sharpeville semi-urban shaving-brush Senate (when referring to Upper House of a country) shearing-shed; shearing-shed hand Senecio petasitis (velvet groundsel) shed senior shearing-shed Franklin Roosevelt Snr shearing-shed hand Senior Counsel (proposed; to replace Queen’s shed hand Counsel) sheep September 11, 11 September, 9/11 (acceptable re sheep farm; sheep farmer; sheep farming (1) World Trade Center terrorist attack) sheep measles (Taenia ovis) sergeant; sergeant major; Serjeant-at-Arms sheepmeat serious violent offence(s); serious violent sheep owner offender(s) sheep shit servant; service shellbed armed services; services Shh! Civil Service; civil servant shift work (n.); shift-work (adj.) Public Service (n., adj., organisation); public service (n., adj., serving the public); public servant ship-chandler serviceman; servicewoman shoat, geep (goat/sheep mixes) service people shock-horror probe service station owner shoe phone (cellular phone) State Service; State services shoot session (of Parliament; usually one per year) shoot-out (n.); shoot out (v.) sessional order(s) shoot-to-kill (attrib.) set shoot-to-wound (attrib.) set-back (n.); set back (v.) shop set line shop owner February 2004

shop trading hour “Six Billion Dollar Man” (Bill English; style mirrors shoregoing that of the television programme) Shore, the (North Shore) sizable; sizably short skeleton weed (Chondrilla juncea) short-change (n., v.) ski short cut (n.); short-cut (v.) ski-boat short-rotation (adj.) ski-field short shrift [NOT shift] ski-lodge short-stay (adj.) ski-tow short term (n., predic.); short-term (attrib.); skill sharing (1) shorter term; shortest term skim milk; skim-milk powder short title (of a bill; defunct from January 2000) skin-graft short to medium term (adj.) slice rule (accounting term) short weight (n.); short-weight (adj.) slip (n., in select committee; similar to a shoulder-tap Supplementary Order Paper) should’ve = should have (re interjections or informal slipe wool or anecdotal quotations) slip-slide (v.) show day Slovak Republic; Slovakia shut down (3) slow side slow down (3) side-deal slow handclap (n.); slow-handclap (v.) sideline (outside normal activity); side line (re slow-moving electricity transmission) sideshow man slush fund (n.); slush-fund (adj.) SIDS = sudden infant death syndrome SM = supplementary-member representation system (SM)# Sieg heil! small sign small business (n.); small-business (adj.); small- sign off (3) business man sign-up (n.); sign up (v.) small claims tribunal; Gisborne Small Claims signals intelligence (re Government Tribunal Communications Security Bureau) small farmer silver small island State silver beet small-shop keeper silver jubilee small to medium sized Silverpeaks County (Dunedin) smart silvertail (member of elite; social climber) smart alec (n., adj.); smart-alecky (adj.) simazine (organochloride) smart bomb; smart missile since (use only in reference to time) SME = small to medium sized enterprise Since = As I am hungry, let us finish now. smoke Sinclair wetlands smokeable single smoke-free single desk (n.); single-desk (adj.) smoke-protection officer single-income (adj.); single-income family; single- smoko income family rebate SMP(s) = supplementary minimum price(s) single parent (n.); single-parent (adj.) SNA = significant natural area single-pilot airline “snail mail” single-seller (adj.) single-sex (adj.) snake single-site agreement Snake Bank cockle snakeweed (prohibited plant) sinking lid (n.); sinking-lid (adj.) snap-on (re tools) sit so [NOT and so] sit down (3) social sit in (3) social welfarism Sitona weevil (clover root weevil) Social Credit sitting Social Credit (adj.) sitting (of Parliament; a day; weeks ending in Social Crediters adjournment) Social Credit Party (now New Zealand Democratic sitting day Party Inc.) sitting hour socio-cultural Sitting suspended from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. socks [NOT sox] Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. sodium Sitting suspended from 12 midnight to 9 a.m. sodium monofluoroacetate (1080 poison) (Friday) sodium oxybate sitting time SOE = State-owned enterprise situation in which / that / where BUT situation soft where (physical location) softgoods February 2004

soft option (n.); soft-option (adj.) Speaker’s gallery soft porn Speakership sogoshosha (trade houses) Speaker’s ruling 16/3; a Speaker’s ruling; several Solanum moritanium (woolly nightshade) Speakers’ rulings Solomon Islands Speaker’s ruling 56/1(3) Solomon Islands (sing. or pl.); Solomons Speaker’s rulings 29/2 and 29/3 (when rulings made Solomon Islands Pijin (lingua franca) by same Speaker) so long as = as long as Speakers’ Rulings (the book); page 77 of Speakers’ solo parent (n., adj.); sole parent (n., adj.) Rulings Supplement to Speakers’ Rulings (the book); some Speaker’s ruling 7/1 (Supplement) sometimes (adv.); some time (n.); sometime (adj., temporary Speaker, the; Mr/Madam Temporary adv.) Speaker some way towards dealing with the problem [NOT speaking some way to] speaking list “Son of Sam” (US serial killer) speaking time S.O.P. 20 (in heading only) “spec”; “on spec” sort, kind, type (watch for whether singular or plural) special that sort of thing Special 301 Watch List (US list of countries with those sorts of things intellectual property inadequacies) sound-shell special benefit (n.); special-benefit (adj.) (Income Sounds, the (Marlborough) Support) source (n., v.) special drawing right(s) south special education (n.); special-education (adj.) South Asia special-interest (adj.) special married rate of training benefit special needs (n.); special-needs (adj.) South Canterbury special-purpose (adj.) South-east Asia speciality (special feature, pursuit); specialty (legal) south face (of a mountain) specific South Island; Te Waipounamu industry specific (2) South Island Landless Māori (collective term) specified Southland specified freehold interest (re foreshore and South Otago seabed) South Pacific specified health payment (payable to the Crown by South Sydney a hospital and health service) South Taranaki specified superannuation contribution withholding south Waikato tax South Westland spectrums/spectra South-west Pacific speech southern 10-minute speech southern bluefin tuna maiden speech; maiden statement; maiden southern blue whiting Speech from the Throne southern China speech made by [NOT speech of/by] Southern Hemisphere speech-making southern Pacific speech-language therapy southern right whale southern ring-necked snake “speedogate” (re odometer “clocking”) southern saltmarsh mosquito; saltmarsh mosquito Speedos Sovereign “Speight-ism” (n., re Fijian coup leader) Sovereign (current, of New Zealand) spell, spelt (words); spell, spelled (brief rest) Sovereign’s birthday (statutory holiday) spend sox = socks spend(ing) on presents; spend in the supermarket soya bean (n.); soya-bean (adj.) spending cut space invaders (n.); space-invader (adj.) spend up (3) spacies (computer games) spillover (n.); spill over (v.) spa pool spin-meister spat catching (1) spin off (3) speak “spinster” (re Helen Clark) “economics-speak” spoilt [NOT spoiled] “wordspeak” spokesperson Speaker finance spokesperson/man/woman acting Speaker, the; Mr/Madam Acting Speaker Opposition spokesperson/man/woman on [NOT for] Assistant Speaker, the; Mr/Madam Assistant finance Speaker sports fishing (1) Deputy Speaker, the; Mr/Madam Deputy Speaker spot market (n.); spot-market (adj.) Mr Speaker; Mr Speaker Gray “springtime” speech (re Mr Bolger’s “Springtime in Speaker-Elect the New Era” speech) February 2004

“Spud Bank” (re Bolger and chairmanship of Kiwiba State Highway 1; State highway Kiwibank) State house (n., adj.) spur line State Insurance Account (defunct) spur-winged plover stateless person SPV = special-purpose vehicle state of the nation speech message (US) square state of Victoria square-dressed (adj.) State Opening (of Parliament) square feet State-owned square up (v.) State-owned enterprise; State-Owned Enterprises SSCWT = specified superannuation contribution Act withholding tax State party; States parties (re International Criminal St (saint) Court) she is a saint State Sector Order St Albans State servant St Heliers Bay State Service; State services St John’s wort (plant; herbal remedy) State Services Commission St Lague electoral system State Services Commissioner Stachybotrys (toxic mould) suzerain State stage the States = the stage II (university study); stage two welfare State stage at which / where state, say (COD “state” = express definitely or clearly stage of the debate, in that [NOT at that] in speech or writing) stamine (in the range of 50 percent) - the document states: “This option is” [NOT the stand document says:] stand-alone (adj.) - this document says nothing about it stand by (3) - the Prime Minister stated/said very clearly ... stand down (3) statement stand in (3) Prime Minister’s statement stand-off statement made by stand over (3) statement of corporate intent standard 5; standard 6 statements of standard accounting practice Standard and Poor’s 500 index Staten Island ( borough) Standing Orders station Appendix A of the Standing Orders Molesworth Station a Standing Order station owner Chapter I of the report on the Review of Standing station yard Orders Tawa Railway Station; railway station Chapter V1 of the Standing Orders statum prescribing (maximum prescribing of drugs) paragraph (2) of Standing Order 80 statute report of the Standing Orders Committee on the New Zealand Statutes 1993, Volume 3, at Review of Standing Orders page 1,738 report on the Review of Standing Orders statute book [NOT books] review of the Standing Orders statute book, on the [NOT in the] Standing Order 80(2) statute of limitations Standing Order 255, “Date of commencement”, Statute of Uses standing orders (re Medicines Amendment Bill) Statute of Westminister (1931; gave New Zealand Standing Orders Committee dominion status) the Standing Orders are Statutes Amendment Bill; Statutes Amendment bills Star Chamber statutes amendment legislation starset (telephone headset) stay-at-home (n., adj.) starting-line stayed (adj., legal) State (country); state (part of a country; a condition) “steady does it” policy American states steam Australian states steam-field Eastern European States steam radio head of State steeplands mini-State step nanny State step by step (2) nation State stepped up (2) police State step up (3) State asset sale St Heliers Bay State-built house State, Church and still life(s) (n.); still-life (adj.) State Department (US); department of State stitchbird State-dominated St Lague electoral system State enterprise stock State-funded stock buyer February 2004

stock dealer suggestion made by [NOT suggestion by] stock food sulphur hexafluoride (a gaseous dielectric; also stock owner known as SF6) stock raising (1) sunset clause; sunset provision stocktaking (n.); stocktake (v.) super stock unit (n., adj.) super-agency stockwork super-draw (re Lotto) stockinette “super” centres Stockton (massacre site, California) “super city” option (re Auckland Regional Services stonehead (dope smoker) Trust) Stony Batter (Waiheke Island) super-clinic stop “super-drys” stop-go (n., adj.) super-ego stop-loss superministry stop off (3) super-quango stop over (3) super-rich stopwork (n., adj.); stop work (v.) superscreen storey(s); two-storey (adj.) [NOT two-storeyed] super-seiner (boat) stormwater super-specialty straight out (2) super-State super-tanker Strait of Hormuz “super” tax strategic result (adj.) super-technology straw man; straw person superyacht street, Street [NOT St] superannuation fund withdrawal tax street kid superior to stroma-free haemoglobin supplementary strong arm (n., v.); strong-arm (adj.) S.O.P. 20 (in heading only) Strongyloides (genus of intestinal parasitic worms) supplementary = supplementary question struck out (attrib.) supplementary estimates (further departmental strung out (2) votes); Supplementary Estimates (book) student Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations (book) student-place supplementary-member representation system students association(s) Supplementary Order Paper; Supplementary Order study right Paper 66; Supplementary Order Papers 2 and 3 study right (n., general term); non - study right (thin Supplementary Order Paper, on the [NOT in the] spaces) supply chain security (re exports) Study Right (n., specific scheme); non - Study Right supralapsarian (thin spaces) surf clam (pipi; Plebidonax deltoides) surface-combat (adj.) stuff-all (n.) surgical boot (n.); surgical-boot maker stuff up (v.); stuff-up (n.) surimi (reconstituted fish) stumpage surveil (v.) STV = single transferable vote (STV)# survey of [NOT survey on] Suai (East Timor) Sussex (cattle and fowl breed) sub (prefix) sustainable-yield (adj.) sub = submarine SUV = sport utility vehicle (SUV)# sub-bituminous “Swainy”, “Swainy and the boys” (re Paul Swain) subclause subcommittee swamp land subedit(or) Swanee River (US) sub-host swearing-in (n.); swear in (v.) subinspector “sweat equity” subparagraph “Swine Act” Subpart J, “Tax credit system” (style changed switch-off (adj.); switch off (v.) January 2000; use style in legislation); new Sydney huntsman spider subpart added syngas sub-region synthetic subsection synthetic fuel plant sub-tribe synthetic petrol plant “subbie” (subcontractor) synthetic yarn industry Subic Bay (Philippines) submissioner; submitter substitute for sufficient/enough [NOT sufficient enough] sugar sugarbag February 2004

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T TB table, Table TCF = textiles, clothing, and footwear table (v.) table 1 in the Budget; table 1 of the Budget TCS = tax credit system Table, Clerk at the teacher table mortgage teacher-aide Table Office teacher-day Table of the House teacher-pupil ratio Table, report do lie upon the teachers college(s) tableau(s) teacher training (1) teacher(s) union Taenia ovis (sheep measles) tears, shed tail tail (re long-term accident compensation) teatime tail-docking; tail-dock (v.) tea tree (manuka); tī-tree (cabbage tree) tail-gunner technowhiz Takaparawha (Bastion Point) tech-wreck (IT crash) take teiche net (box net) “take it or leave it” TELCO = telecommunications company take off (3) tele (prefix, usually one word) takeover (n., adj.); take over (v.) Telebingo take up (3) telebond take from (take away from); take off (lift off) teletubby; teletubbies - take money from the pensioners temporary - take money off the table temporary chair/Chair, the; Mr/Madam Temporary talk Chair talkback (n., adj.); talk back (v.) temporary chairman/chairwoman/chairperson, the; talk-speak Mr/Madam Temporary Chairman/Chairwoman/ tall poppy syndrome Chairperson talofa lava (Samoan greeting) temporary Speaker, the; Mr/Madam Temporary tamarillo mosaic virus Speaker tanalised (of timber) tenants-in-common tank tench (exotic freshwater fish) tank farm terminus; terminuses tank wagon terrajoule tape-record (v.); tape-recorder; tape-recording territorial customary rights (re foreshore and tar seabed) tar-paper Territorial Force tar-seal (n., v.) territorial, a Tarawa (atoll) territorial unit Targa (Tasmania) test tarted-up (adj.) test ban treaty test fire (v.) tatt (n., slang for tattoo) testatrix; testatrixes tavern-keeper testing-station tax, taxpayer a/the taxpayer’s subsidy; taxpayers’ subsidy tetrahydrocannabinols pigovian (tax) Tetum (East Timor dialect) tax-and-spend (adj.) text tax cut (n., adj.) text messaging (1); text message (v.) tax-dodger text processing (1) “taxed/taxed/exempt” thankfully (acceptable in the sense of both “in a tax-exempt thankful way” and “one is thankful that”) tax-free - She thankfully accepted the increase in her salary. tax-gatherer; tax gathering (1) - Thankfully, management came to its senses. tax-inclusive thank you (acceptable use of “you”) tax-neutral thank you, Mr Speaker taxpayer thankyou(s) (n.) taxpayer-friendly thar taxpayer-subsidised that; who, whom (pronoun; use “who” or “whom” taxpaying (adj.) when referring to people) tax take - The people whom [NOT that] I saw at the beach ... taxi - The people who [NOT that] come first will win. taxicab - The clock that was moved is the only one I want. taxi-driver; taxi-driver’s licence; taxi-drivers’ - The family who/that ... licences Thatcherite taxi fare that’ve = that have (re interjections or informal or taxi meter anecdotal quotations) February 2004

THC (cannabis) “ ‘tis, ‘tis not” debate theatrette tit for tat (2) Their Excellencies title them-and-us (attrib.) long title (of a bill; defunct from January 2000) then (“after that”; “at the time”) short title (of a bill; defunct from January 2000) - the then Prime Minister title (clause 1) thence [NOT from thence] tizz; tizzy they’ve = they have (re interjections or informal or TNT anecdotal quotations) Tobin tax (excise tax on cross-border currency thin capitalisation regime (re tax) transactions) thingamy Tokelau; Tokelau islands think toll “”; think big (v.) toll-bar “thinkpiece” toll-call think positive tomato growing (1) third tonne-kilometre; tonne-mile third-country status ton of bricks third form; third-former too hard (2) third generation (n., adj.) tool third-hand tool-box third-level (adj.) tool kit third reading; third reading debate toolroom third sector housing toothfish third wave (re the information revolution) top third way (n., middle course between topdress(n., adj.); topdressing (n., adj.) and the free market); third-way (adj.) top growth Third World top level (n.); top-level (adj.) three tops and tails three-quarter (adj.); three-quarters (n.) BUT No top-stream (adj.); top stream (n.) points were scored in the first three quarters top up (3) and 20 points in the last quarter. Topsy, grow like “three strikes and you’re out” (policy re crime) tortuous (full of twists, not straightforward); through traffic torturous (full of, or causing, torture or pain) tidy-up (3); tidying-up (n., adj.) total immersion school tie toties quoties tie in (3) touch tie up (3) touch rugby tighten up (v.); tightening-up (n., adj.) “touchy-feely” tourism timber yard tourism industry [NOT tourist industry] Timbuctoo (remote place); Timbuktu (Mali) tourism satellite account (measures impact of time tourism on the economy) 1 year’s time; 2 years’ time tout ensemble time and a half towie(s) time and time again [NOT time and again] town time bar (n., adj.) town hall; Auckland Town Hall time book town milk supply time consuming (2) tow truck (n.); tow-truck operator time-gap time line toxic algal bloom time payment Toxocara canis time-slot track one/two/three (re Afghanistan) time-span trade time that/when tradable time-use (adj.) Trade Aid (organisation); trade aid (general) Times New Roman (font) trade off (3) Timms trap (for possums) trade-weighted index Timor-Leste (East Timor) - The dollar was 68.5 on the trade-weighted index. “tina” (there is no alternative) trades trades council; Wellington Trades Council tinder-dry trades hall; trades hall practices; Wellington Trades tinker’s damn Hall “tinny”; “tinny house” (re cannabis) trading stock rule Tiostrea chilensis (Foveaux Strait dredge oyster) trainset; Ac trainset tip off (3) tram Ti Rakau Drive (Auckland) tram conductor tiro(s) tram-stop February 2004

tramway line turn off (3) tramwayman turn out (3) tranche policy (economic); second tranches turn-round (n.) [NOT turn-around] tranquilliser turn round (v.) [NOT turn around] trans (prefix) turntablism (re hip hop music) transboundary tusitala (tale-spinner); Tusitala (R L Stevenson) trans-Pacific tussock transsonic low-tussock grassland transferable term quota tall-tussock grassland Transmission Gully tussock grassland traps, once round the tussock land travelator tussock moth Treasurer tutor-hour “people’s Treasurer”, the (Winston Peters) Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) Treasurer; Associate Treasurer TV = television Treasury, treasury Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber Treasury; the Treasury benches twelve Treasury Minister = Finance Minister (of another 12 score country) or Treasurer (New Zealand) the Twelve (the twelve Apostles) treasury stock (stock held by company) twelve Apostles treaty TWI = trade-weighted index article 2 (of the Treaty of Waitangi); Article the TWI = training within industry Second Twink (n.); twink (v.) Treaty House two Treaty of Waitangi; the treaty day or two “trendy lefties” two-income family trial two-thirds (n.); two-third (adj.) trial (v.); trialled; trialling type trial and error (2) FBI-type operation; FBI type of operation triarchy type 2 diabetes (non - insulin dependent diabetes) triboard type A meningococcal meningitis tributyltin (anti-fouling paint) type, kind, sort (watch for whether singular or plural) Trichosurus vulpecula - that type of thing trickledown (adj.); trickle down (n., v.) - those types of things tricyclic antidepressant trimedlure trap (re fruit fly) Tri-Nations Series (rugby) tripartite test (re bail) triple triple A rating triple bottom line (re businesses being socially responsible) tropical grass web worm tropic of Capricorn; tropic of Cancer; the tropics trouble-free (adj.) truck truck-driver truckies truckload true facts = facts try to [NOT try and] TSO = telecommunications service obligation TSP = telecommunications service provider TTE = “taxed/taxed/exempt” superannuation regime TTQ = transferable term quota Tuamotu Archipelago tuberculin-negative tuck-shop tunnel Homer Tunnel tunnel 13 tuppence-worth; tuppenny-ha’penny Turkmenistan turn February 2004

up to the minute (2) U upper uberrimae fidei upper class (2) UHF Upper Clutha UHT (ultra heat-treated; re milk) Upper House UK urolagnia (a sexual fetish) ultra (prefix) US; USA ultra-basic us-and-them (attrib.) ultra heat-treated (adj.) used-car dealer ultra-modern use-of-money interest ultra-right user ultrasonic hospital user charge “ums” and “ahs” user charge; user charges regime; high un (prefix) user-charges unaffordability “user chooses” principle un-American user part-charge uncooperative user-pays (n., adj.) uncoordinated USSR uninterested (not interested); disinterested UV (impartial) un-ionised; unionised Uzbekistan UN (United Nations) Unabomber (US serial bomber, Theodore Kaczynski) una voce Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all Undaria pinnatifada under (acceptable in the sense of “less than”) under-6-year-old (n.); children under 6 under age (2); under-ager underexpenditure underfish (v.); underfishing (n.) under-invest (v.); under-investment (n.) undernamed under-rate (v.); under-rated (adj.) (rates are too low) under-recovery under-report under-represented under-resource Under-Secretary = Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Commerce; Parliamentary Under-Secretary under the table (2) under-sixes; under-50s (referring to age of people) under way [NOT underway] “uni” uninterested (not interested); disinterested (impartial) [NOT lack of interest] union bashing (1) unique (the only one of its kind) [NOT most/very/ somewhat unique] unitech (educational establishment) United Nations is United States is unit standard (n., re national certificate); unit-standard (adj., re national certificate) university entrance up - I could not start [NOT start up] my car. - It was cold from May until [NOT up until] August. - Please check [NOT check up on] your last entry. up and up, on the upfront uphill; up-hill and down-dale upside down (2) upskill up the ante February 2004

voting-fodder V voting list v VRE = vancomycin-resistant enterococcus John Brown and Sons Ltd v Frost (court case) V8 (engine with eight cylinders in V shape) value value-added tax value for duty value-for-value (adj.) value judgment vancomycin-resistant enterococcus/enterococci variance with, at varroa varroa bee mite Varroa jacobsoni VAT; VAT-man VC (BUT re title of legislation follow the style of the legislation); VC & Bar vegetable-grower veggies vehicle vehicle-licensing fee vehicle testing (1) velvet groundsel (Senecio petasitis) veracity (truth); voracity (greed) very, very vet (veterinarian) VFD = value for duty Viaduct Basin (Auckland) VIC = vehicle inspection certificate vice-chancellor(s) vicinity of (physical location only) victims’ rights video video-cassette video nasty video-recorder; video-recording videotape (n., v.); videotaping Vietnam War VIP(s) “virtual” (adj., of a person, in sense of virtual reality) visa-free visiting justice (re prisons) visitor permit(s) vitamin C deficiency volenti principle (legal term) volume Hansard, Volume 337, at page 2519 voracity (greed); veracity (truth) vortex; vortexes (pl.); vortices (pl., scientific) vote, voter electorate vote (general election) “No” vote; vote “No” party list vote; party vote (general election) party vote (House) personal vote (House) voice vote (House) Vote Agriculture and Forestry vote-catcher; vote catching (1) Vote Education; Education vote vote of 38 to 38; vote of 5 to nil voter meter Votes Biosecurity Vote Veterans Affairs vote “Yes”; “Yes” vote voting February 2004

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W water-race wage watersider; waterside worker minimum-wage order water-tank wage and price freeze wax(ed) eloquent [NOT wax(ed) eloquently] wage earner; wage earners and salary earners waxeye wage-fixing (adj.) wage freeze way/away wage-linked - Harry is way/away off beam. wage-tax trade-off - The submarine is way/away below. wage-worker; hourly-wage worker wealth producing (1) Wairau Plains weather waiting weather bomb (extreme weather) Government-in-waiting Weathercoast (Guadalcanal) Leader of the Opposition in waiting weathertightness waiting time (n., adj.); waiting-time (qualified n.) web walk web browser walking bus web-enabling walk out (3) website walk over (3) week, weekend wall 1 week’s leave; 4 weeks’ leave; 4 weeks’ annual wall-less leave wall map 2-day week; 2-day-week (adj.) “wall of death” fishing 2-week (adj.) “wall of wood” 2 weeks; 2 long weeks Wallis and Futuna (islands) 2 weeks a month; 2-week-a-month (adj.) 2 weeks old; 2-week-old(s) (n.); 2-week-old (adj.) wander-at-will (adj.) 2 weeks’ time; 2 weeks late want, wish (either acceptable) Labour weekend want to (use sparingly) Queen’s Birthday weekend I congratulate [NOT I want to congratulate] week 2 of the course I say [NOT I want to say] week-night I turn [NOT I want to turn] week or two war Weet-Bix Boer War Weiti Estuary (Auckland) First World War welfare State Gulf war well Korean War well-child (adj.) Land Wars (New Zealand) well coordinated (2) Second World War well documented (2) Vietnam War well founded (2) war damage well informed (2) war god well intentioned (2) War of Independence (US) well known (2) war-torn well meaning (2) World War I; World War II well off (2); well-off (n.) ward 8 well paid (2) warm fuzzy well-thought-of warning well-thought-out - issue a warning well worn (2) - sound a note of warning Wellington warrant officer; WO Jackson Wellington Harbour wash Wellington south washhouse “Wellywood” washing-up bill west wash out (3) member for West Coast - Tasman (thin spaces) Washington, DC, west Auckland (region); West Auckland (electorate; waste defunct) waste-care West Bank (Middle East) waste-rock West Coast (South Island); west coast (North waste water (n.); waste-water (adj.) Island; US) watch West Coaster watch-house West Harbour (suburb of Auckland) watchkeeping West Papua (aka Irian Jaya, aka Papua; see water Papua) waste water (n.); waste-water (adj.) West Sepik (province of Papua New Guinea) water body Western water-cycle (adj.) Western alliance watered-down (attrib.) Western Bay of Plenty February 2004

Western bloc senior whip Western countries whipping Westerners whip-round (n.) Western Europe whips Western Hemisphere whips’ committee Western Province (Solomon Islands) whirling disease (of fish) Western Samoa = Samoa (from 1997) whisky (Scotch; general reference); whiskey (Irish Western Sydney and US, if specified) Western World whistle “westie” (person from west Auckland) whistle-blow (v.) Westminster; Westminster style of Government whistle-blower BUT Whistleblowers Protection Bill Westpac bank (colloquial name for an orange whistle-blowing (n., adj.) roughy whistle-blown fishery) white Westport Harbour white ant (n.); white-ant (v.) wet white clover (n.); white-clover (adj.) wet (n., adj., having liberal tendencies); wets and white clover mosaic virus drys “white flight” wet fish (n.); wet-fish (adj.) “white gold” (hybrid cotton seed; Southern Ocean “We won. You lost. Eat that!” (said by Cullen re toothfish) Employment Relations Bill) white-hot what white monkey apple (Acmena smithii) what have you (in the sense of “or anything else white out (3) similar”) white paper “what if” (n., adj.) white pine what’ll = what will/shall (re interjections or informal white power (n., adj.) or anecdotal quotations) white spotted tussock moth (pest, from Asia) whatnot (furniture; indefinite thing); and what not whiteware (and other similar things) white water (n.); white-water (adj.) wheat who (pronoun for person acting); whom (pronoun for wheat-farming person acted upon) wheatfield - The man who is responsible is liable to a severe wheatgrower penalty. wheat growing (1) - The man whom the Government ordered to be wheat trading (1) arrested is a known criminal. wheel whole wheel-clamping (1) whole House, Committee of the [NOT Committee of when (to express an actuality); if (to express a the whole] conditional idea) whole milk (n.); whole-milk (adj.) - If I come home, will Jane take me to the pictures? whole-of-Government (adj.) - When I come home, will Jane talk to me? “whole of person” whence [NOT from whence] whole of property (attrib., re Crown pastoral land) whether (to express an alternative or possibility); if wholesale pricing sensitivity model (to express a conditional idea) whoop-de-doo - Let me know whether the member would prefer to go on Wednesday. (that is, let me know either Whorfian hypothesis way) whose (usually refers to persons, BUT may be used - Let me know if the member wants to go on of objects to avoid awkward constructions that Tuesday. (that is, only if the member wants to go) would otherwise require “of which”) whether or not (use when the meaning is - He has joined an organisation whose members “regardless”, “in any case”; “whether” and “or not” share his views. should be adjacent) WHPSM = wholesale pricing sensitivity model - I shall go on Wednesday whether or not it suits wide John. wide-bodied - Can Jane tell me whether [NOT whether or not] wide ranging (2); wider ranging (2) the train has left? widgie while, whilst (not acceptable in the sense of wife-beater “although”, “even though”) wiffle-waffle whip (Parliament) Wild West (American West during settlement) chief Labour Williamstown (Australia) junior Labour whip winchman junior Opposition whip wind junior whip wind-blow (trees that have been blown down) musterer (Green Party) windthrow; windthrown parliamentary coordinator (Alliance; defunct) winding up (n., adj.); wind-up (n., adj.) relax the whip Windy Ridge (near Warkworth) senior Government whip wine February 2004

wine box (n.); wine-box (adj.) writ of certiorari wine producing (1) writ of habeas corpus “wink wink, nudge nudge” writ of mandamus winner-takes-all (adj.) write WINZ = Work and Income New Zealand; “WINZ” write off (3) (if making a pun) write-up (n.); write up (v.) wire-tap (n., v.) www wish WWW = World Wide Web BUT www.amazon.com wish list (n.); wish-list (adj.) wish, want (either acceptable) wizza-wazza bird wobbly possum disease wood woodlot wool wool-blind wool buying (1) wool-classer; wool-classing woolgrower; woolgrowing Woolsack (in the House of Lords) wool tops; wool topmaking woolly woolly nightshade (Solanum moritanium) woolly-pully (adj., description of a sandal-wearing tree-hugger) woolly-woofter wop-wops work work capacity (n.); work-capacity (adj.) “work first” (adj.) work-for-the-dole (adj.) work-life balance work out (3) workplace work-ready work-related work-site work test (n., v.); work-test (adj.) work tested (2) work testing (1) work-to-residence (adj., re immigration) working working age (2) working-day working-group working-list workingmen’s club working-party world cricket world cup First World War; Second World War rugby world cup world-best (adj.) World Cup (soccer) World War I; World War II worst worst-case (adj.) worst-ever (adj.) worthwhile (adj.) would’ve = would have (re interjections or informal or anecdotal quotations) wrap-up (n.) Wright “Dr Wright” John “A+B” Wright writ writ day [NOT the writ day] February 2004

X X dollars xiexie (Chinese; thank you) X factor x, y, and z Xyella fastidiosa (bacterium; causes Pierce’s disease)

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Y Y2K yachtspeople yacker yaka (Fijian tree) Yawn! year 2 to 4-year-old(s) 2-year (adj.) 2 years; 2 long years 2 years old; 2-year-old(s) (n.); 2-year-old (adj.) 2 years’ time; 2 years late 4-yearly from year one June-year figures (financial year ended June) year 1 (n., adj., re primary and secondary education) year 2 of the course year 4 (re the Budget) year 2000 compliant year by year (2) year ended June 1984 (past); year ending June 2018 (future) Year of the Horse (Chinese lunar calendar) year or two yellow yellow-eyed mullet yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus) yellow flower wasp (Radumeris tasmaniensis; scoliid wasp) “yeoman loop” (re money-laundering case) yes Oh yes!; Oh yes, I ... say “Yea” or “Nay” say “Yes” or “No” vote “Yes”; “Yes” vote “Yes” (actual word used); yes (not actual word used) - When asked to stand for Parliament I said “Yes”. (that is, my response was to say the word “Yes”) - When asked to stand for Parliament I said yes. (that is, I answered in the affirmative, but my answer did not consist of my saying just the word “Yes”) yes, it is yes/no syndrome yet [NOT and yet] young Young Nationals; Young Nats Young Turks youth youth-at-risk (adj.) youth offending (1) Yugoslavia

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Z Zantedeschia aethiopica (calla lily) zero zero-rate (v.) zero rating zone 1 (re DVDs)

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kia kotahite hoe (row in unison) Māori Words kia ora Kīngitanga (Māori king movement) The “Aotearoa New Zealand”, “karitane”, and “kiwi” kirihipi (sheepskin) entries remain in the alphabetical part of the Word ko au (myself) Style Book. koha (gift or donation); koha-ed kōhanga reo (Māori language nest or nursery) Māori place names are in a separate list following this kōrero-ed one. koretake (useless) kūkupa (wood pigeon; name used in the north) This list also includes Cook Islands Māori words. kunekune (Māori pig) kura kaupapa Māori (Māori language school); kura kura kaupapa Māori tuarua (Māori language A secondary school); kura ahi kā (occupation rights) aratuku (radio waves) Ariki ryegrass M mahinga kai (food-gathering site; vegetable garden); mahinga mātaitai (fishing-ground) H mamae (pain, despair) haere ra manaaki tauira (training programme) Hauhau; Hauhauism mana hīkoi Mana Māori Movement; Mana Māori hīkoi-ing mana moana Hīkoi of Hope Mana Motuhake o Aotearoa; Mana Motuhake hui Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata hui-a-rohe mana whenua hui-a-tau (annual meeting) Māori hui-ed - Māori, Māoris, ngā Māori (for plural form put what “hui nō mata” (as used by Winston Peters) member says) hui taumata (Māori summit) Māori affairs portfolio Hōri (transliteration of George); hori (false, untrue; Māoridom derogatory reference to Māori) Māoriland Huka Mā me ngā Whena e Whitu (Snow White and Māori-Pākehā (adj.) the Seven Dwarfs) Māori Purposes Fund Account huri atu huri mai (turn away, turn back to me) Māori Queen Māori reserved land owner = owner of Māori reserved land Māoritanga I “Māori time” ihupuku marae; Tūrangawaewae Marae Ikaroa Rāwhiti (electorate) mātaitai (fishing-ground) iwi (sing. or pl.) matua whāngai (foster care) maumau/moumou (wasted) “Mauri Titanic”

K miha (new New Zealand symbol) kaiako (teacher) moko mōkai (head of a captive) kaiārahi reo (pre-school for handicapped) mōteatea (lament, dirge) kai moana moumou/maumau (wasted) kaitakawaenga (liaison person) kaitiaki (guardian); kaitiakitanga (exercise of guardianship) kaka-beak N kapahaka Ngāti Wikitoria (i.e., Pākehā) karekau (nil, nothing) nohoanga (camping site, seat) Kauhanganui (Māori Parliament) nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou kaumātua (Māori elder) katoa kaunihera (council) kauri (Agathis australis) kauri gum (n.); kauri-gum (adj.) P kawa (etiquette or rules of a marae) pā; Kaiapohia Pā kāwanatanga (sovereignty) pahupahu (v., to bark) kawenata (covenant) Pākehā kerēme (claim) February 2004

- Pākehā, Pākehās, ngā Pākehā (for plural form put Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) what member says) Te Ture Whenua Maori Bill / Maori Land Bill (thin Pākehā-Māori (adj.) spaces; either name is acceptable on its own) pāngarau (mathematics) Tihei mauri ora! (frequently used salutation) papakāinga (original home, home base) tikanga Māori (custom, rule) papatipu rūnanga tiki-tour Papatūānuku; Papa (Earth, Earth Mother) tipuna/tupuna (ancestor, grandparent); pāua poaching (1) tīpuna/tūpuna (pl.) pēpe tiritia wheat piripiri (bidibidi) tī-tree (cabbage tree); tea tree (mānuka) piupiu toetoe poroporoaki (farewell, closing ceremony) tomo (pot-hole; cave) pouihi (carving) tuhituhi (writing; re School Certificate Māori) poukai (festival, Waikato region) tūhonohono poupou (post, ancestor) tuku-ed (v., passed from generation to generation) puhipuhi (pine needle blight) tuku rangatiratanga (Māori self-reliance) puoro (tattoo of mid-body) Tu Matauenga (god of war) pūpū (general name for volute univalves of the tupuna, tipuna (ancestor, grandparent); tūpuna, winkle tīpuna (pl.) type) tūrangawaewae (home ground); Tūrangawaewae Marae turituri (be quiet; shut up) R Tu Tangata Trust rākau (method of teaching Māori language; wood; tree) rangatahi (modern youth) W rangatiratanga wāhi rāhui (type of land) Ranginui; Rangi (Sky; Sky Father) wāhi tapu (sacred place) Ringatū (a religious faith) wairuatanga rūnaka/rūnanga Waitangi Day rūnanganui waka waka ama (outrigger canoe) waka-hopper T waka hourua (double-hulled ocean-going canoe) waka hūmārie Tā (Sir) waka tauā taha Māori wānanga (conference of a special kind; Māori tertiary taiapure (local fishery) institution) taihoa whakapakari (re education) Tai Rāwhiti (except in an organisaion’s name, such whakatauira (conference) as Tairāwhiti Polytechnic) whanake rangitaua (martial art) takiwā pōti Māori (Māori electorates) whānau tangata; tāngata (pl.) whanaunga tangata Pacifica (Pacific Islands people) whanaungatanga tangata whaiora (mentally ill) whāngai (to adopt, care for; foster parent; adopted child) tangata whenua vote (type of special vote used by those on Māori roll) whānui (family at large; used in conjunction with group name in an extended sense) tukuiho (treasure to be passed on) whare tāpoi (tourism) whare herehere (prison) tarakihi (fish) whare paia (health clinic) taura here (group residing outside its tribal land) whare wānanga tautoko-ing whenua Tāwhirimātea (god of weather) whenua rangatira Te Ahi Kā (concept) whenua tōpū (land in collective ownership) Te Aho Matua (statement, re education document) Te Arikinui (Māori Queen/King) Te Iho Matua (a philosophy) tēnā koutou; tēnā koutou katoa Te o Whiti (marginal strip) te reo Māori; te reo Te Tai Hauāuru (electorate) Te Tawharau (political party) February 2004

Karekare Māori Place Names Karori Katikati This list also includes Cook Islands Māori words. Kaukapakapa Kawau Ahuahu Ahuriri Kāwhia Aitutaki (Cook Islands) Kenepuru Ākarana Kerikeri Akaroa Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) Aoraki/Aorangi (Mount Cook) Kohimārama Aoraki / Mount Cook (thin spaces) Kohitere Aotea Aotea Square Kohukohu Aotearoa Kōpū Aparima Kōpūtāroa Aranui Kūmeu Aranui cave Māhia Awakino Mairehau Awanui Mākikihi Awapuni Mamaku Hāhei Manaia Harihari Manakau (Horowhenua); Manukau (Auckland) Hātaitai Manukau Harbour Hauraki Manawatū Hawaiki Mangaia (Cook Islands) Hawaiki nui; Hawaiki roa Mangakino Hāwea Mangamuka Hāwera Mangaroa Heretaunga Mangatainoka Hīhī Peninsula Mangawhai Himatangi Māngere Hokianga Mangere (electorate) Mangonui Hopuhopu Maniatoto Horotiu Manihiki (Cook Islands) Horowhenua Manukau (Auckland); Manakau (Horowhenua) Manukau Harbour Huapai Manurewa Huka Falls Māpua Hukarere Maraenui Hunua Maraetai Ikaroa Rāwhiti (electorate) Maramarua Kaeō Mārewa Kaiapōhia Pā (near ) Māruia Matakana Matakohe Kaikōura Kaikoura (electorate) Matamata Kaimai Mauke (Cook Islands) Kaimanawa Maungakiekie Kāingaroa Maungamaunga Gorge Kaipara Maunganui Kaitāia Maungapōhatu Road (Te Urewera National Park) Kaitangata Maungatapere Kaiteriteri Maungatūroto Kaiti Mawhera ( area) Kaitoke Meremere Kamo Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, Te (Pacific Ocean) Kapiti Moehau Kapiti coast Moeraki Kapuni Moerewa Karamea Mōkau Karangahape Road Mōteo Karapiro February 2004

Motunui Pākaitore Marae Moutoa Pakuranga Murihiku (Invercargill-Dunedin area) Panguru Muriwai Papakura Murupara Papamoa Naenae Papanui Ngaio Paparangi Ngaputora (Cook Islands) Paparoa Ngāruawāhia Papatoetoe Ngātea Paraparaumu Ngauranga Paremata Ngāwhā Pāremoremo Ngāwha Springs Parihaka Ngunguru Pātea Niu Tīreni (New Zealand) Pāuanui Oamaru Pāuatahanui Ōhaaki Pētone (acceptable form of Pito-one) Ōhai Piako Ōhākea Pīhā Ōhākune Piopio Ōhāriu Ōhāriu Bay Pipitea Ohariu-Belmont (electorate) Pirongia Ōhau Pito-one (commonly known as Pētone) Ōhinewai Pōkeno Ōhope Porangahau Ōhura Porirua Ōkahu Domain (Auckland) Porirua Basin Ōkaihau Pūhoi Ōkārito Pūkaki Lagoon (Manukau Harbour) Ōkato Pukehina Ōmahu Pukekohe Ōmākau Pukeora Onehunga Pukerua Bay Onekawa Punakaiki Onerahi Pureora Ōpōnoni Rakahuri River (Ashley River) Ōpōtiki Rākaia Ōpunake Rakaia (electorate) Ōrākei Rakiura (Stewart Island) Ōrātia Rangipō Ōrere Rangitaiki Plains Ōrewa Rangitata Ōruawharo Rangitīkei Ōtāhuhu Rangitikei (electorate) Ōtaki Rangitoto Otaki (electorate) Raumati Otākou Raurimu Ōtamatea Rāwene Ōtara Remutaka (commonly known as Rimutaka) Ōtautahi (Christchurch) Reporoa Ōtepoti (Dunedin) Rimutaka (acceptable form of Remutaka) Ōtira Rongotai Ōtorohanga Rotoehu Ōtūmoetai Rotoiti Ōturu Rotomā Ōwairaka Ōwaka Rotowaro Paekākāriki Ruahine Paerata Ruakākā Paeroa Ruakura Pahiatua Ruapehu Paihia Rūātoki February 2004

Ruatōria Tinakori Taieri Tinui Taipā Titirangi Tai Rāwhiti; Te Tai Rāwhiti Titiraupenga (mountain/maunga) Tairāwhiti Polytechnic Tokanui Tairāwhiti Healthcare Ltd Tokomaru Tai Tokerau; Tokoroa Tākaka Tōmoana Takanini Tongariro Takaparawhau (Bastion Point) Tuatāpere Takapuna Turakina Takapuna Point (also known as MNHZS Tāmaki Tūrangawaewae Marae; tūrangawaewae (home reserve) ground) Takitimu (acceptable form of Tākitimu) Tāmaki Tūrangi West Tamaki (electorate) Tūtaepatu Lagoon Tāmaki-makau-rau (Auckland) Urewera Tamaki Makaurau (electorate) Waiapu Tāneatua Waiariki Tangiterōria Waiheke Tangiwai Waihī Tangowahine Waihopai Tapanui Waikanae Tapanui flu Waikaremoana Tapawera Waikato Taranaki Waikeria Tararua Waikikamukau (fictional place) Tarawera Waikumete Tauherenīkau Waimakariri Waimana Taupiri Waimarino Taupō Waimate Taupo (electorate) Waimea Tauranga Wainuiōmata Tawa Wainuiōmata Hill road Te Ānau (acceptable form of Te Ana au) Waiōuru Te Aroha Waipā Te Atatū Waipapakauri Te Atatu (electorate) Te Awamutu Waipawa Te Hāpua Waipukurau Te Ika-a-Māui (North Island) Waipuna Tekapō, Lake Wairākei Te Kauwhata Wairarapa Te Kūiti Wairau Plains Te Moana-nui-a-Hawaii (Cook Islands Māori) Wairoa Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (Pacific Ocean) Waitakere Te Moana-nui-o-te-atu-o-Tangaroa (Cook Islands Māori) Waitaki Waitaki Canyon Temuka Waitaki Valley Te Onetea (on State Highway 1) Waitangi Te Tai Hauāuru (electorate) Waitangirua Te Tai Rāwhiti; Tai Rāwhiti Waitara Tairāwhiti Polytechnic Waitematā Harbour Te Tai Tokerau; Tai Tokerau Waitomo Te Teko Waitōtara Te Tihi-o-Maru (commonly known as Timaru) Waiuku Te Tii (location of Waitangi Marae) Wakatipu Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) Wānaka Te Wai Pounamu (South Island) Wanganui/ Te Waka-a-Māui (South Island) Wanganui (city) Tieke (on ) Whanganui electorate Tīkapa Moana (Hauraki Gulf islands) Whanganui National Park Timaru (acceptable form of Te Tihi-o-Maru) Whanganui River February 2004

Whāingaroa harbour (Raglan) Whakapara Whakarewarewa Whakatāne Whananaki Whangamata Whanganui/Wanganui Wanganui (city) Whanganui electorate Whanganui National Park Whanganui River Whanganui-a-Hei (Cathedral Cove) Whāngāpē Whangarā Whangarei Whangaruru Whenuapai Whirinaki Whitianga

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